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Mandate Now leads the agenda for the introduction of mandatory reporting of suspected + known child sexual abuse by those who work in #RegulatedActivities
May 9 11 tweets 3 min read
Along with the non-mandatory "mandatory reporting" measure the government introduced today, it also introduced an offence of "preventing or deterring a person from complying with duty to report child sex offences".

A 🧵 This is completely backwards. It's not an offence to fail to report child sex abuse but it is an offence to discourage someone else from reporting. I mean, how mad is this? Image
May 9 19 tweets 4 min read
We now have the government's legislative proposal in response to the IICSA public inquiry's recommendation on mandatory reporting of child sex abuse.

It is utterly useless, and it is clearly intended to be that way. The following 🧵 explains why. You can read the legislative text here

Screenshots of relevant bits will be included in the thread below.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill…
Oct 20, 2022 43 tweets 9 min read
(📢) 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?
Oct 19, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read
Good morning.

Now, more than eight years later.
. Following the resignation of Fiona Woolf, the second Chair of #CSAinquiry, this statement to the House by then Home Sec Theresa May

@bbcr4 PM programme 1.11.14 Theresa May statement. #CSAinquiry to remain a panel inquiry despite calls from victim groups audioboom.com/posts/2613292-…
Sep 21, 2020 12 tweets 22 min read
@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
Aug 15, 2020 5 tweets 4 min read
The evidence of @jimgamble to #religiousorganisationsandsettings hearing @InquiryCSA was compelling. School registration is crucial for the welfare of children and good staff. Well-designed #MandatoryReporting reporting is also a vital *component* of functioning safeguarding /1 Fiona Scolding QC asked about paragraph 31 of Baumgarten's statement. Can you spot an answer her question?
"People in positions where disclosure is mandatory ..." - could you tell me what you mean by that? Clearly Baumgarten is oceanically unfamiliar with the subject /2 Image