Mandate Now

The 450,000 abuse cases reported in the last two years makes child abuse second to security on the Government priority list. How does the government work that out.?

The remark was made during an exchange with Andrew Neil about the budget deficit. Lawson clearly has no appreciation that unlike France, where he lives, there is no law in England, Wales or Scotland that requires suspected or known abuse of a child to be reported to the authorities. The Government, of which he was part, supported this failed position.

Naana Otoo-Oyortey is from FORWARD (Foundation for Woman's Health Research and Development )and Dr Claire Gerada is a GP who formerly chaired the Royal College of General Practitioners.. The alleged Mandatory Reporting legislation is muddled, poorly introduced, void of training,, and appears to be little more than stable door legislation with few preventative qualities as far as we are able to dis...

Ben Mathews, LLB, BA, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Law at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, You can read a little more about him here together with details on his latest book: http://goo.gl/uiFv9r He was also contributor to Panorama in November 2013 about Mandatory Reporting and he also spoke on the Today programme on the morning of the broadcast as you can listen he...

"How dare Watson accuse ...... !" And this is the very reason only 5% of child abuse is discovered in the UK. The attacks on Watson see journalists unknowingly attempting to put the whole child issue back into the box from which has only just begun to emerge. Mr Watson has since made a statement which you can read in the Guardian.

The emphasis of the press release that seems to have been issued by Hampshire Safeguarding Children's Board is that the Police and the Local Authority response to allegations of abuse at Stanbridge Earls in Romsey, was extensive, thorough and coordinated. During the BBC report it was claimed that Hampshire Police spent 6000 hours investigating allegations at the school but no explanation for this...

Evidence given on 9/9/15 From 1980 to 1994, John Lewis was the Headmaster of Geelong Grammar School in Australia. Lewis  subsequently became Head of Eton College between 1994 - 2002  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_(headmaster) The degree of memory loss experienced by Mr Lewis about child sexual abuse that occurred at Geelong Grammar is significant. He accepted few of the inquiry's assert...

Among the suggestions to curb CSA complaints whose evidence might be challenging to substantiate is the introduction of a lie detector test, and not naming the alleged abuser until charge, The latter happens in Scotland, but even when charged, unless a journalist chances to be in court (lists are not published we understand), the likelihood of an alleged offender being named before trial is low. T...

This is the full interview on this topic with Mr Gambaccini. Mr Gambaccini is in fact incorrect about the Statute of Limitations on CSA crimes in New York following a question from Hilary Devey. For civil cases, New York requires people who allege they were abused as minors to come forward by age 23. New York's statute-of-limitations laws have one of the shortest windows in the country for pursuin...

A series of interviews coincided with the publication of a book detailing his experience during the police investigation into his alleged abuse of male teenagers which the police dropped after 14 months. by following this link: https://audioboom.com/boos/3581395-loose-women-15-9-15-gambaccini-discusses-14-mths-on-bail-follwing-met-police-dropping-its-investigation-for-abuse . Mr Gambaccini is in f...

This is a helpful contribution to the debate on this important subject of naming alleged abusers, and what to do about rare incidences of malicious allegations when they are discovered.

Professor Andrew Ashworth and Lord Hoffmann, discuss mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse in such settings as schools, health, and faith organisations ('Regulated Activities') and agree this focused application of law, which Hoffmann describes as having 'particularity', and which is lobbied for by Mandate Now, could positively impact child and vulnerable adult protection in Regulated Activ...

Clearly Lord Armstrong is displeased with the police approach. There is something to consider here, not least the police interview outside the home of the former Prime Minister. . But how does Lord Armstrong propose police investigate allegations into this most secret of crimes, one in which the alleged abuser is as motivated as the abusee to keep it secret? Without informing the public an investi...

A chilling example of why referrals of sexual abuse are not made. To report abuse, staff have to go rogue and have no legal protection. PIDA is ineffective. Safety critical child protection is grounded on whistleblowing which the absurd 'guidance' conceals.

BBC health correspondent Matthew Hill looks at the subject from a scientific point of view and examines what we do know about paedophilia. He explores the latest scientific research on what causes it, whether it is a treatable illness and how our understanding of the condition has implications for the best way to manage it. He talks to leading neuroscientists about what is going in the brains of p...

Three years on from the murder of their daughter April Jones by paedophile Mark Bridger, her parents Coral and Paul are calling for help to be given to paedophiles to stop them offending. Perhaps surprising views given their loss, but should we be giving this idea a lot more thought? And how can we stop child abuse by paedophiles when we understand very little about them? BBC health correspondent...

A curates egg interview with Lucy Duckworth.. Some of Lucy's responses to Shelagh Fogarty are simply unintelligible. Decide for yourself. The answer to the question at 1'.35" should cause us all concern. How could anyone apply for a role on the 'VSCP' when it had no pathfinder ToRs and still has none as Lucy reveals? Furthermore, how could Inquiry personnel interview applicants for their suitabili...

Getting angry about things, drinking too much and the arrival of suicidal ideations describes what many abusees experience. Campaigning about the issues surrounding CSA and the protection of children is a very 'lonely place.' No one wants to speak to you. Such campaigning affects everything in an abusees existence. Struggling to sleep is a default. Not talking about it is challenginng when the sub...