Home Office: Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy 2021 | No strategy, few proposals and little money
The critique uses our default two column format to highlight the many shortcomings in this ‘strategy’ document. It has the appearance of having been designed to assist government minimise/dismiss any meaningful recommendations IICSA might make in its final report, the big ticket item being mandatory reporting, This is expected in 2022.
Our critique is available here
Review of : “The Scale and nature of child abuse” by The Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse | Its value is limited
Before commenting on the report which was released on 9th June 2021, it is necessary to make you aware that the ‘Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse’ is entirely funded by the Home Office which is trenchantly against the introduction of well-designed mandatory reporting of known and suspected child sexual abuse by those working in Regulated Activities (“RA”).
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Boarding Schools’ Association says it wants Mandatory Reporting | (as long as it doesn’t work)
In recent weeks the Sunday Times has run a series of articles about non-recent sexual and physical abuse in boarding schools. The articles stemmed from Louis de Bernières going public about the abusive time he had while a pupil at Grenham House in Birchington, Kent.
Here’s the first article, the second and the most recent from 02.05.21 is below:
Scotland : Child abuse victims are still going undetected || Yet Scottish academics still mistakenly reject mandatory reporting
On 22nd October 2020 an article by Dr Sarah Nelson of the Centre for Research for Families and Relationships appeared in The Scotsman.
The reader is informed :