Hillsborough: Government responds to report on families' experiences - BBC News
A 2017 report called for key reforms following inquests into the deaths of the Hillsborough victims.
The time it’s taken for the government to respond to the bishop’s report has become as much a feature of the exercise as the content of the response.

Theresa May was still Home Secretary when she commissioned it back in 2016, and six years - and seven home secretaries - have gone by since it was published.

The government knew it couldn’t avoid confronting this, and it’s striking that it’s accepted that the delay has compounded the Hillsborough families’ agony.

Given that the very purpose of the bishop’s report was to prevent further suffering, it might be seen as something of an own goal.

Campaigners for a formal Hillsborough Law will doubtless say that the government response falls short of the legislation they’ve envisaged.

They’ve pushed for a full "duty of candour" on all public servants - meaning that they’d be forced to be frank about their failings, when appearing at inquests and inquiries.

The government says that the police will be held to account on this front, via different legislation. But some Hillsborough families have told me they want to see that duty extended to everyone who works in the public sector.