Offences against Children: Mental Health Services — Written Question

Question

Mary Glindon

Labour — Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed mandatory duty on the part of (a) therapists and (b) other mental health professionals to report child sexual abuse in the Crime an

Answer

Jess Phillips

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...

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