Kesgrave Hall: MP urges police to reopen child abuse inquiry Tory MP Dan Poulter, who has written to Suffolk's chief constable, Simon Ash, to urge him to re-open the police investigation. Photograph: Felix Clay A Tory MP has urged police to reopen an investigation into child abuse after several former boarding school pupils made assault allegations spanning a decade. Daniel Poulter said he was "extremely concerned" about allegations made by 10 former pupils of Kesgrave Hall school for troubled boys, which is in his Central Suffolk and North Ipswich constituency. He wrote to Suffolk police's chief constable on Monday after the Guardian reported on the allegations dating back to the 1980s. Former pupils described a spectrum of abuse, predominantly physical, and the use of disciplinary methods outlawed at the time as corporal punishment. Two pupils who spoke to the Guardian alleged they were sexually assaulted by members of staff at the school. Poulter, who is also a junior health minister, said: "I was extremely concerned to hear about the allegations of widespread child abuse of former pupils at Kesgrave Hall School in the 1980s and 1990s. I would urge anyone who has been the victim of abuse to come forward and immediately contact Suffolk police so that their complaints can be properly investigated. I have today written to Suffolk's chief constable, Simon Ash, to urge him to re-open the police investigation. David Cameron has announced two inquiries into an alleged paedophile ring in north Wales in the 1970s and 1980s, but the prime minister is now facing growing calls for a wide-ranging examination of child abuse claims. The former children's minister Tim Loughton is one of the prominent Westminster figures calling for a wider inquiry. He said: "I've called for an over-arching inquiry going back to the 1980s and before into child abuse, involving schools, young offenders institutions and other places as this [abuse claims] is going to go on and on. This story [Kesgrave Hall] would be covered by that umbrella. The former pupils of Kesgrave Hall spoke out prompted by the Jimmy Savile scandal and renewed publicity around allegations of assaults on children at care homes in north Wales. The school was closed in 1993, a year after the police investigation ended. Michael Smith, the headteacher of Kesgrave Hall from 1984 to 1992, declined to comment explicitly when asked about the abuse claims. A spokeswoman for the home office referred the Guardian to a statement made to the House of Commons by the home secretary, Theresa May, in which she said the government would "look at" opening a wider investigation if necessary once the current inquiries had concluded. Keith Bristow, the director general of the National Crime Agency, is expected to report on abuse at north Wales care homes by April.