Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether any files on child abuse have been passed to his Department by (a) other parts of the Government or (b) hon. Members; and in what year such files were so passed.

In 2013 the Department for Education received information from the Department of Health which referred to 21 children's homes and schools in England. This information had been uncovered as part of a document review process undertaken by the Metropolitan Police Service in the context of Operation Yewtree.The Secretary of State for Education gave details of this information in a Written Ministerial Statement on 27 March 2014:

www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm140327/wmstext/140327m0001.htm#14032769000005

More generally, hon. and Rt hon. Members and concerned members of the public regularly write to the Department with concerns about child abuse or neglect, sometimes enclosing supporting documents. Such letters are dealt with as appropriate on a case by case basis.