Professionals must be under a legal duty to report child sexual abuse, and face criminal sanctions for not doing so, to tackle the systemic under-identification of CSA. That was one of the key ...

State law outlines an extensive list of people — with varying levels of contact with children — who are required to report child abuse or neglect to law enforcement or the state’s Department ...

Professionals and others in positions of trust in relation to children will face a duty to report child sexual abuse (CSA). Home secretary Yvette Cooper announced yesterday that the government would ...

People with childcare responsibilities in regulated sectors could be barred from working with children again if they fail to report a disclosure. The new mandatory reporting duty was announced on ...

Questions from both opposition parties centred around the issue of duty to report, which is the legal obligation for anyone to report a suspected case of child abuse to authorities as soon as ...