On 6 January 2025 the Home Secretary provided an update on the Labour government’s plans to make it mandatory to report child sexual abuse.
The government will put forward measures in the crime and policing bill to make it an offence to fail to report or to cover up child sexual abuse with professional and criminal sanctions.1 The bill is planned to be put before Parliament this spring.
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