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My Amendment 248A would make it a criminal offence for a designated reporter deliberately to conceal a child sexual offence of which they know or have reasonable suspicion or try to hinder it being reported. The amendment leaves it to the court to decide on the level of culpability and therefore the level of the sentence if convicted. Amendment 248A is also clear about who should inform the Disclosure and Barring Service of the conviction. It should be the duty of the court and nobody else; that way there is no doubt that it will be done and not covered up.