Offences against Children: Mental Health Services
Commons · Question 58657 · Tabled 10 Jun 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 13 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Mary Glindon
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed mandatory duty on the part of (a) therapists and (b) other mental health professionals to report child sexual abuse in the Crime an
Answer
Answered by Jess Phillips, 13 Jun 2025
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse considered such issues very carefully in the course of compiling its report to Government, and concluded that a mandatory reporting law was necessary to improve the protection of children and young people.Th...