Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, announced Labour's plan to make reporting child sexual abuse mandatory. This will be implemented through the Crime and Policing Bill, which will also criminalize the failure to report or cover up such abuse.
Labour will 'make it mandatory to report abuse', Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said.Addressing the Commons, she told MPs: 'We will make it mandatory to report abuse, and we will put the measures in the Crime and Policing Bill that will be put before parliament this spring, making it an offence with professional and criminal sanctions to fail to report or cover up child sexual abuse. 'The protection of institutions must never be put before the protection of children.
''Overhaul' of how evidence is gatheredThe home secretary added that Labour will 'legislate to make grooming an aggravating factor in the sentencing of child sexual offences because the punishment must fit the terrible crime'.She said: 'We will overhaul the information and evidence that is gathered on child sexual abuse and exploitation and embedded in a clear new performance framework for policing, so these crimes are taken far more seriously. 'The independent inquiry recommended as one of its first recommendations, a single core data set on child abuse and protection, but that's never been done.'Ms Cooper also confirmed that Labour will 'set up the new victims and survivors panel to work on an ongoing basis with the inter-ministerial group to guide them on the design, delivery and implementation of new proposals and plans'
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