6 Response No Response Self-assessed

Editor-in-Chief for digital archive

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.

Published Evidence Summary
The following publicly available evidence relates to this recommendation:
According to the available evidence, no formal government response was published, and there is no evidence that an Editor-in-Chief position was established to oversee the presentation and ongoing management of the Digital Archive. The original Panel website (hillsborough.independent.gov.uk), which served as the Digital Archive, was archived by The National Archives as a static snapshot rather than being actively managed with new editorial oversight; no further published evidence has been identified since the government's statement in 2012.
How was this assessed?
Assessed by gemini-2.5-flash on 19 Mar 2026
Checked data held on this site (government responses, progress updates, independent evidence)
External sources searched: www.gov.uk, www.legislation.gov.uk, hansard.parliament.uk
Jurisdiction
England and Wales
Response
No Response
No Response Cabinet Office
01 Dec 2012

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.

Source
Inquiry Hillsborough Panel
Report Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel 12 Sep 2012
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Responsible Bodies
Cabinet Office Primary
Themes & Tags
Weak Government Accountability & Scrutiny Records Archiving Digital Archive
Recommendation age 13.5 yrs
Last formal update 4861 days ago