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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