‘Without a change in the law, there’ll be another Savile’ - Keir Starmer says professionals should be forced to report suspected child abuse

I think  this is a step in the right direction but until there is a widespread cleansing of child rape networks which exists in 99.9% of our government institutions and bodies then this mandatory law will be by-passed just as it has been for decades. What it will lead to is low-level abusers being tried and a lot of innocent people being wrongfully accused which is just how the Establishment likes it and which is exactly what has happened and is still happening. Unless the body is 100% independent and decentralised from any political and civil agency - it will fail in much the same way as so many commissions and inquiries have failed.

Anyone that thinks that people like Savile operate alone are much mistaken. If a high profile entertainer can get away with it in the public eye what do think goes on in institutions which exist through secrecy?  Societal collusion borne of fear and self-interest is just as much part of a society which has been groomed to turn away as it is the more overt forms of pathological perceptions. Follow the money trail where arms, drugs, banking and trafficking meet and you'll find the sticky fingers of most well known government, intelligence and military agencies in the thick of it. And you have US and British media serving as gatekeepers for whoel sick charade. That isn't some new conspiracy. it's simply what is.

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‘Without a change in the law, there’ll be another Savile’ - Keir Starmer says professionals should be forced to report suspected child abuse

 

The Independent

 

Teachers, doctors and social workers who fail to report concerns over suspected cases of child abuse should face criminal charges, one of Britain’s most senior barristers has said. 

 

Keir Starmer, the former Director of Public Prosecutions, has reignited calls for mandatory reporting which would compel all professionals to report suspicions of child abuse or face legal consequences.

In comments to the BBC’s Panorama programme, to be broadcast tonight, Mr Starmer will call for Britain to consider a “very straightforward, simple scheme” that would “change the law and close a gap that’s been there for a very long time”.

The programme will also claim that senior civil servants knew for decades that children’s homes and schools had covered up cases of child abuse.  Mr Starmer’s call was supported by the Church of England, with Bishop Paul Butler, chairman of the church’s National Safeguarding Committee, saying: “We have to think of the child first, not ourselves, not the institution. [We must do] what’s best for the child.”

Liz Dux, of Slater & Gordon, the law firm representing 60 of Jimmy Savile’s victims, said she believed that, had there been a mandatory reporting law, details of his abuse could have been passed to the police as early as 1964.

“Countless victims suffered sickening attacks in institutions that were entrusted to keep them safe. Without mandatory reporting legislation, we risk another Savile case,” she said.

Mandatory reporting is already  enshrined in law in Canada, Australia, Denmark and several US states including Florida, where a failure to report such cases can result attract a $1m (£600,000) fine. Mr Starmer wants Britain to follow suit with a “direct and clear law everybody understands”.
“The problem is [that] if you haven’t got a central provision requiring people to report, then all you can do is fall back on other provisions that aren’t  really designed for that purpose and that usually means they run into difficulties,” he said.

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