No Evidence Of Cover-Up In Child Abuse Review A review into how the Home Office handled files containing high-profile historical child abuse allegations has been published. NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless was brought in to investigate after an internal review found the department had "lost or destroyed" 114 files between 1979 and 1999. Mr Wanless and Richard Whittam QC were asked to address allegations that the Home Office failed to act on information received about abuse allegations in the 1980s. The report found it had not been possible after some 30 years to establish exactly what had been given to the Home Office and what action had been taken because there was no system of routinely recording such referrals. Lord Brittan has denied any wrongdoing But the authors said extensive searches had not uncovered evidence of "organised attempts" by officials to conceal child abuse. The report found no evidence that the Home Office had funded the notorious pro-paedophile Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) - but said the possibility could not be dismissed entirely. Video: MP's Son: 'We Need To Dig Deeper' But the authors said the apparent absence of a dossier of information passed in 1983 by Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens to the Home Office - and then-home secretary Leon Brittan - had caused "particular concern." Facing questions about his review from MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee, Mr Wanless said he found Home Office record keeping was "a mess." Labour's Simon Danczuk - who has campaigned for a child abuse inquiry - said the review had been "set up to fail" and dismissed the findings as the latest in a series of "whitewash" reports. In a statement, he said: "We desperately need to snap out of this overly-cautious and defensive approach and see an appetite to confront the cover ups of the 1980s, not just gloss over the past and hope it all goes away. The message that's continually being conveyed by government to survivors of child abuse is that we hear you, but we're not acting. Theresa May has a once in a generation opportunity to address child abuse failings of the past. But so far all we've seen are whitewash reports and hopeless attempts to manage and contain an historic child abuse inquiry. The Home Secretary said she had accepted recommendations in the review that would see all allegations of child abuse passed to the department marked as "significant" and all contact with police on such matters formally recorded. She said: "I am determined that appalling cases of child abuse should be exposed so that perpetrators face justice and the vulnerable are protected. This report published today was commissioned because I wanted to seek independent scrutiny of the Home Office's review of a previous departmental investigation into historical child abuse allegations. Speaking in the Commons, Mrs May also confirmed the Met Police had been asked to probe claims by ex-newspaper editor Don Hale that another dossier of 1980s allegations compiled by MP Barbara Castle was suppressed. The Home Office told Sky News Mrs May has asked Mr Wanless to produce a further report looking at what police and security services did with information passed to them about the allegations. His reports will be used by a wider Hillsborough-style inquiry into paedophile activity linked to public bodies and institutions. But that probe is still without a chairman after Fiona Woolf became the second candidate to stand down over links to the British Establishment. Lord Brittan has denied failing to act on the Geoffrey Dickens file, which is said to have named prominent politicians and other senior figures alleged to be involved in a paedophile network. Mr Dickens' son told Sky News he was not surprised that the latest review had left victims and campaigners "no further forward." Barry Dickens said: "Nothing has really come out yet - we need to dig deeper."