It really is very hard to understand the #IICSA thinking on mandatory reporting. Other countries already have it so there is a model to work from.
The inquiry received high-quality quantitative academic evidence that mandatory reporting works, notably from Prof Ben Mathews of Queensland University of Technology. They even went to the trouble of flying him from Australia to give evidence in person.
He warned specifically against this course, saying that it’s not good public policy to put in place a measure you know is not as good as another.
There’s even a legislative proposal going through Parliament at the moment, a private members bill sponsored by Baroness @Tanni_GT which the inquiry could have adopted. But no, they have decided to recommend mandatory reporting only for events that hardly ever happen.
It looks as if they don’t believe in their own recommendation and are trying to find ways of sabotaging it so that it will never be implemented.

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Oct 22
A quick thread on mandatory reporting, why it's needed, how to do it right and why @InquiryCSA has got it wrong
Child sex abuse is a vile crime, so vile that nobody wants to believe anybody else guilty of it.

It's so vile that everyone fondly imagines they would instantly report suspicions if that situation were ever to arise.
That belief lasts until the moment someone actually has suspicions and is faced with the possible need to report someone. At that point awful doubts creep in.

"What if I'm wrong?
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Oct 20
This is a bitterly disappointing outcome to the #IICSA public inquiry. After all the years of hearings, for the inquiry to recommend such a limp and inadequate version of mandatory reporting is inexplicable.
The mandatory reporting proposal only addresses situations that rarely occur.

The first is someone actually witnessing an incident of child sexual abuse. It's almost always a private act with no witnesses. So making it mandatory to report this makes almost no difference.
The second is the perpetrator admitting the abuse. Most child abusers (like other criminals) have enough sense of self-preservation not to admit it. So making it mandatory to report this also makes almost no difference.
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Mar 18
Some have suggested that the issues around Ampleforth college are trivial - failed inspection because of a leaky tap. I'm sure those pushing that line are fully aware of its untruth, but those who read it might be taken in. So here is a brief history of Safeguarding at Ampleforth
IICSA (The Independent Inquiry Into Child Sex Abuse held hearings into Ampleforth and Downside in late 2017. Their report published the following year ran to 223 pages. It included the following in the executive summary.
"It is difficult to describe the appalling sexual abuse inflicted over decades on children aged as young as seven at Ampleforth School, and 11 at Downside School."

"Ten individuals, mostly monks, connected to these two institutions ...
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