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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...