Question follow-through · 58659

Offences against Children: Disclosure of Information

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed mandatory duty to report child sexual abuse in the Crime and Policing Bill on dissuading offenders unknown to the police from comin

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Home Office
Tabled
10 Jun 2025
Target answer date
13 Jun 2025
Answer
13 Jun 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 10 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the proposed mandatory duty to report child sexual abuse in the Crime and Policing Bill on dissuading offenders unknown to the police from comin

  2. 13 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    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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