Member

My Amendment 262, which the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson, has just kindly referred to, would apply another part of recommendation 13 of the IICSA report. It extends the duty to report beyond those who witness child sexual abuse, or have it disclosed to them, to those who recognise the indicators of sexual abuse and do nothing. Some of these are defined in the amendment. Observing these signs is much more frequent than either having the child disclose the abuse, which is extremely rare, or actually witnessing the abuse, which is vanishingly rare.