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The World Health Organization has evidence showing that children do not self-disclose. They do not spontaneously report unless they know that adults will take responsibility for it. Mandatory reporting addresses that; it closes the fear gap for the adults responsible for supporting the children, while the absence of a duty leads to what the WHO calls prolonged exposure to harm—exactly what we in the UK have seen. There is Home Office evidence for this which, again, is all available to the Minister.