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(📢) Our post embargo thread on the recommendations made in the #IICSAfinalreport, including the expected #IICSAbigticket recommendation for the introduction of well-designed #MandatoryReporting of child sexual abuse by those working in #RegulatedActivities starts shortly.
1/ #MR of #CSA exists in most jurisdictions in the rest of the world. Empirical evidence and data demonstrate it's a vital component of significantly improved safeguarding in complex institutional settings. So why do Eng + Wal not have it?
2/ The short answer is that the safeguarding framework, as created by the Dept of Education, is dominated by 'neglect' in the family. It is then panel beaten into a framework that is misapplied to complex institutional settings which have entirely different demands. 
@GympalGB @uk_sport @Sport_England @DCMS @CommonsDCMS @InquiryCSA The Whyte Review is commissioned and funded by (i) @Sport_England, a non-departmental public body under @DCMS and (ii) @uk_sport, an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by @DCMS. The 'review' has acquired the adjective 'independent' despite being commissioned by /1
@GympalGB @uk_sport @Sport_England @DCMS @CommonsDCMS @InquiryCSA the very organisations under whose umbrellas the alleged and discovered abuses were committed. The last sports review on which we recently tweeted is here and note who RT'd it. This was also commissioned by @DCMS which hoofed it into the long-grass /2
@GympalGB @uk_sport @Sport_England @DCMS @CommonsDCMS @InquiryCSA Whyte's date band (para #5 ToR) is v. limited, as though there’s nothing to learn outside the dates despite the non-existent legislative underpinning for reporting abuse remaining unchanged for >70 yrs. It's still a discretionary expectation that reports *should* be made which /3
