Two research papers on #MRCA by Dr Ben Mathews of QUT with one stemming from @CARoyalComm Australia | #CSAinquiry
These two pieces of research by Dr Ben Matthews provide important insights into Mandatory Reporting of child abuse. The first stems from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Abuse which was established on 13th Jan 2013 and initiates research programmes from evidence and data generated from the inquiry. The inquiry is in stark contrast to the #CSAInquiry commissioned by the Home Office which can only be desribed as a Blue Peter ‘sticky back plastic’ affair which serves to indicate the unacceptable laissez-faire approach that successive Governments have taken towards the protection of children and vulnerable adults.
Mandatory reporting laws for child sexual abuse in Australia: A legislative history