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Jon Brown's interview contains no initiatives for prevention* of abuse of children despite the NSPCC being the National Society for the Prevention* of Cruelty to Children. Jon Brown refers to 'historic abuse' ....Where is he? The Government has dropped this offensive term for the CSA inquiry, the DPP does not use it and neither doesThames Valley Police. But the country's largest child protection c...

Charging Janner and the Defence then applying for a pre-trial abuse of process hearing would air the facts - the very thing that is frustrating so many and perhaps most particularly the complainants.

04/06/15 - News Agencies of all types usually generate revenue from selling stories. It's hinted at but why so bashful? Most people sell something - don't they?

'We have not always cared for those who are most vulnerable.' That is true. Powell claims the recommendationsa will produce cultural change. It is a hope that can only be delivered when law delivers effective #MandatoryReporting.

She says there is lack of accountability and little in the way of support structures within the Church. These are just two of the ingredients which make Regulated Activities petri dishes for child and vulnerable adult abuse. Until #MR arrives no reliance can be placed on institutional policies and protocols alone.

An interview with Jon Brown of the NSPCC's head of sexual abuse programmes. (What does it mean?) Mr Brown repeatedly informs us that victims are coming forward in greater numbers. What Mr Brown seems unkeen to address is early intervention in Regulated Activities and staff reluctance to report abuse. Within this contribution Mr Brown asserts there has been a change of culture which implies 'its al...

Robin Fletcher asserts child protection training is 'professional.' The claim is wrong. There is no accreditation scheme for providers of training which makes the provision inherently variable. He claims there now exists stringent regulation of schools safeguarding. This is also wrong. The legislative foundations of child protection have not changed since the late 50's and the reporting of concern...

James appears to be moving towards the conclusion MandateNow arrived at sometime ago, but we have been at this coalface since 2005. The fact that many individual cases are finally being seen and heard for the first time stems from a changing climate that more easily permits people who were abused in childhood to speak. A tipping point was reached somewhere in the CSA timeline that awakened abusees...

Extract from an interview with James O'Brien the day before the inquiry's listening meeting at the Oval, which was a most odd experience.

www.mandatenow.org.uk/news/ has a new posting going up tomorrow about the unsatisfactory #VSCP initiative.

Theresa May and Lord MacDonald the former DPP on Janner's non prosecution for child abuse. Informative, but little expectation of change. Saunders is given a mild handbagging.

Report by @LBC Chief Reporter @tomswarbrick1

You can see the televisionBBCtv news report here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-27789103

From 6/11/14 - The challenge of reporting a concern about the welfare of a child, the risk involved, and an insight into the NSPCC's unworkable proposal for #MR which we reviewed in detail here - http://mandatenow.org.uk/mandatenow-response-to-nspcc-policy-briefing/

You might ask why this error is still made and by those defined as 'professionals.' Even today after all the coverage Mandatory Reporting has received, this uncorrected error was broadcast on @bbcr4today. Let's hope the programme corrects it. Remember Panorama with Sir Keir Starmer - could the non-existence Mandatory Reporting law have been any clearer?

The concealment of abuse by the administration of an institution (i) hangs a 'paedophiles welcome' sign on its gates and (ii) provides a weapon for paedophiles remaining within the institution, to hold to the head of the management should they ever be discovered. Suspected child abuse prompts 'gaze aversion' which sits comfortably with institutional objectives.

If as the lawyer indicates, the 1989 new Act makes evidence giving relating to the IPCC CSA review unprosecutable under OSA, the Govt can guarantee police immunity with ease. So why the hand wringing?

In the wake of the IPCC announcement into police (non) investigation of #CSA complaints, MandateNow discusses how and why abuse goes unreported and also being encouraged to vanish.

Something tells the listener that Ms Munt considers the IPCC only capable of gumming a problem because it lacks dentures and power. Was the #CSAinquiry once in this position?

The PM's announcement of Wilful Neglect has temporarily confused the landscape. It'll pass once it's exposed as worthless rhetoric to quieten Parliament on a difficult day following the release of the Oxford CSE report. It stands no chance of changing the culture of child protection within Regulated Activities including Churches. It is however, as Simon Bass indicates, an acknowledgement that the...

In the face of today's reports Furedi holds entrenched views. He doubts #MR works which suggests he's not read the evidence. This includes the second paper in this link http://goo.gl/i9JR0m (Cross jurisdictional analysis). On 13th May 2016 Dr Ben Mathews article on Impact of Mandatory Reporting Law : A Seven year Longitudinal Analysis was published by Child Abuse and Neglect http://goo.gl/HIEtPu c...