Offences against Children: Disclosure of Information
Commons · Question 58659 · 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 to report child sexual abuse in the Crime and Policing Bill on dissuading offenders unknown to the police from comin
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...