UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph
The former Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer QC calls for a change in the law to force doctors, social workers and priests to report all allegations of child sexual abuse
By John Bingham, Social Affairs Editor
7:30AM GMT 04 Nov 2013
Doctors, social workers and priests should be required by law to report all allegations of child sexual abuse, according to the former Director of Public Prosecutions.
Keir Starmer QC, who recently stepped down as DPP, called for a change in the law to make it a crime not to raise the alarm about such suspicions.
His call has received support from both the Church of England and Roman Catholic Churches, which have both faced accusations of covering up sexual abuse in the past.
But the department for Education has ruled out introducing so-called mandatory reporting claiming that it could even make children less safe in some situations.
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