A decision to circulate the document was taken by children’s minister Tim Loughton following a request by the local MP John Penrose.
The serious case review (SCR), published in January, criticised school management for not acting on earlier warnings.
Penrose wrote to Education Secretary Michael Gove and spoke to Loughton, asking him to make sure that rules and procedures for dealing with allegations of child abuse are properly applied in every school.
In a letter to Penrose, Loughton said that in order to learn from SCRs, “the right people must have access to the full information, to see where professionals should have intervened and could have made informed decisions, and how such abuse can be avoided in future”.
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