Digital archive accessible with professional support
Hillsborough Panel · Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel · Issued 12 September 2012 · Addressed to: Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
We recommend that the Digital Archive be permanently accessible at the Liverpool Record Office, the Central Library, Sheffield and other appropriate local venues, so that members of the public have access to the full archive at these sites, with professional support. Funding should be made available to ensure that adequate facilities and staffing are in place.
Hillsborough Panel, Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel · 12 Sep 2012 Source PDF →
Response — verbatim from government
●Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Implemented. The Digital Archive was made publicly accessible. On Disclosure Day (12 September 2012), the Panel launched a website containing 450,000 pages of material collated from 85 organisations. The archive website (hillsborough.independent.gov.uk) provided public access to all disclosed documents. This has been preserved by The National Archives. (Source: Hillsborough Independent Panel Report 2012)
Department for Culture, Media and Sport · 1 Dec 2012
Evidence trail — what's actually happened since
No published activity has been recorded against this recommendation yet.
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