Editor-in-Chief for digital archive
Hillsborough Panel · Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel · Issued 12 September 2012 · Addressed to: Cabinet Office
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
We recommend the appointment of an Editor-in-Chief to oversee the presentation on the Digital Archive of documents relating to the disaster, and to the role of each of the organisations involved. The organisations concerned should fund this post and work with the Editor-in-Chief to develop adequate descriptive, contextual and explanatory material. Where requests are received for the redaction of material or its removal from the Digital Archive, the Editor-in-Chief should take a decision on each request.
Hillsborough Panel, Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel · 12 Sep 2012 Source PDF →
Response — verbatim from government
●Cabinet Office
No formal government response published. There is no evidence that an Editor-in-Chief position was established for ongoing management of the Digital Archive. The original Panel website (hillsborough.independent.gov.uk) was archived by The National Archives as a static snapshot rather than being actively managed with new editorial oversight.
Cabinet Office · 1 Dec 2012
Evidence trail — what's actually happened since
No published activity has been recorded against this recommendation yet.
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