Mandate Now

Child protection is a 'national threat' according to the Prime Minister. This resulted in the committee spending just 6 minutes on the subject during the 95 minute interview with Ms Spielman. The Committee seems unaware that more than 50% work time at the DfE is spent on child protection. The question about the buck stopping with Ofsted is simply illiterate and prompts one to ask what understandin...

Where is the evidence that says adults in Regulated Activities do not need the protection of Mandatory Reporting? Discretionary reporting of known and suspected abuse for Regulated Activities in England and Wales is possibly the most absurd basis on which child protection is grounded anywhere in the world.  Government is mistakenly terrified of MR. Their advisers don't understand the subject becau...

In this advertisement, two 'Regulated Activities' are mentioned these being a teacher and a sports coach. Staff involved in these Regulated Activities are not required by law to report even witnessed abuse of a child. In this regard England, Wales and Scotland lag the rest of the world on MR legislation. See data: http://goo.gl/TbDVo4 The advert shares much with the decade long seatbelt and drink...

@RevRachelMann was in the discussion but character restrictions defeated us. The cornerstone issues of 'effective' MR legislation are (i) it is a culture changer (ii) far greater reliance can be placed on a child protection framework (iii) it supports reporters (iv) unless concerns are put to those who have the wherewithal to investigate (the Local Authority in the first instance), nothing will ch...

On 13/11/14 there was a meeting between abusees and the Home Secretary who at the time, was under severe criticism for not having engaged with survivors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esZAxlNPE-U On the 04/02/15 the Home Secretary announced the inquiry was to be given Statutory designation http://goo.gl/DfxzSO and Professor Jay who attended the meeting has since become its Chair.

When the Times first published the Rotherham story in September 2012 about the pimping, trafficking and CSE of girls around Yorkshire and other counties, it expected an investigation. One started, but not into the failures of the Local Authority and Police, but on who leaked the documents to The Times.

You may recall Bishop Bell School in Eastbourne and the Jeremy Forest case http://goo.gl/8iXuzS . We understand the school is to be renamed shortly.

DC model requires the reporting of mental and physical (incl sexual) abuse and neglect. MR in DC is over a far greater range of ‘Regulated Activities.’ Labour's NC 17 amendment to the Serious Crimes Bill was a decaffeinated version that would deliver additional 'practice' complication - the very thing that isn't wanted and which he spoke against in the Panorama recording. 

A marvellous interview which compliments this excellent article by Peter: http://goo.gl/sgLem7 . You can read more about the Trials and Outcomes involving staff who taught and abused boys at Gayhurst, Caldicott and Moor Park here : http://goo.gl/hQIz7Z

Ms Fairhead's commentary provides little confidence that the BBC will get child protection grounded on a solid and reliable footing any time soon. Our detailed review of its Child Protection policy, which we have describes and 'Perfectly Legal but Useless,' can be read here http://goo.gl/aB4Y6n

You may wish to look at our review of the current child protection policy at the BBC which we describe as : Perfectly Legal but Useless. - http://goo.gl/aB4Y6n

No wish to expend time on this interview. It is another example of why little progress is made with child protection. The interviewers and the contributors seem to have forgotten the 2012 abuses by Vahey at Southbank International School for which the SCR was published only yesterday 20/01/16. It's not all in the past.

In addition to those on bursaries and scholars, there are additional low CSA fruit in every school ('Regulated Activity' or RA). These include the sons and daughters of parents who are (very) keen to be on the 'friends' of the school committee more often to further the interests of their child in the eyes of the school administration than anything else; pupils of parent Governors; pupils whose par...

See our full posting http://goo.gl/mlctKg which includes just twelve out of 2000 letters known to have been written. If that is not an attempt to influence - what is?

a Govt Consultation on the issue. The statement suggests the largest child protection advocacy in Britain is not going to participate in the consultation on biggest issue to arise in child protection for many years. MN understands the consultation will start in the early new year and run twelve weeks.