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Consultation outcome: Mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse

Home Office

November 2
12:27 2023

Further to this call for evidence, the government has launched a public consultation to set out proposals for delivering a mandatory reporting duty and to test opinion on a small number of undecided policy questions. A single government response addressing both of these consultation exercises will be published as soon as possible.


Original consultation

Summary

Seeking views on how a legal duty to report child sexual abuse would affect children, organisations, workplaces and volunteers.

This consultation ran from
to

Consultation description

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse recommended that the government make it a legal requirement for certain people to report child sexual abuse when:

  • theyre told about it by a child or perpetrator
  • they witness it happening
  • they observe recognised indicators of child sexual abuse

This call for evidence is particularly aimed at people who:

  • work with children
  • work in law enforcement
  • support people affected by child sexual abuse

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