WATE-(9) Response Historic

Make failure to report child abuse by staff an explicit disciplinary offence.

Recommendation

Consideration should be given to requiring failure by a member of staff to report actual or suspected physical or sexual abuse of a child by another member of staff or other person having contact with the child to be made an explicit disciplinary offence.

Published Evidence Summary
The following publicly available evidence relates to this recommendation:
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
Sources
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This recommendation asks for cultural or behavioural change, which is difficult to verify from published sources alone. The evidence above reflects policy commitments rather than measured outcomes.
Jurisdiction
UK-wide
Response
Historic

No government response recorded.

Source
Inquiry Waterhouse Inquiry
Report Waterhouse Inquiry — Final Report 16 Feb 2000
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Themes & Tags
Care safeguarding systems Staff policy awareness
Recommendation age 26.3 yrs
Last formal update No formal updates