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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to make mandatory in the UK the reporting of child abuse and neglect allegations and suspicions. More details
Submitted by Amanda McArdle of The UK Campaign for the Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse & Neglect – Deadline to sign up by: 21 January 2009 – Signatures: 120
More details from petition creator
Compulsory reporting legislation for child abuse/neglect already exists in many countries including all 50 States in the USA, all Canadian States (bar Yukon Territory) and all Australian States (bar Western Australia). The introduction of this legislation is long overdue in the UK (please refer to Hansard Written Answers 6th May 2003 Child Abuse – Mr Hilary Benn & Mrs Helen Clark). In November 2005 the petitioner, who was employed by a mental health agency, reported child sexual abuse allegations with 9 indicators, in accordance with her employer’s guidelines and under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, to the Police and Social Services and she was promptly suspended from her employment. In October 2006 her employment was terminated - if mandatory reporting legislation had existed in the UK this could not have happened. There is currently no legal obligation to report child abuse or neglect in the UK - help us to change this by adding your name to this petition to make reporting compulsory and the UK a safer place for children.
Current signatories
Amanda McArdle, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Matt
- Anthony McArdle
- Philip Glover
- Sandy Smyth
- Dick King
- S King
- Ben Parish
- James
- S. Walton
- Michael McArdle
- Dawn Thewlis
- Sharon Bishop
- Karen Darnborough
- stephanie Turner
- N King
- Jennifer McArdle
- Martin Thomas
- Andrew Hart
- Alexandra Ryan
- Simon Diver
- Simon Diver
- elaine miller
- Lynn Elliott
- Sophie Genevieve McInnes
- Thomas Saltiel
- Susan Thompson
- debbie paul
- Julia Hutton
- Tseren Gibbons
- J Powell
- Caroline Lawes
- Rachael Haddon
- Stephen Forrest
- Dawn Halstead
- E Sanders
- Robin Harrison Hurd /petitions.pm.gov.uk/Childrned2parnts/
- Marie Heaton
- Craig Staniforth
- R H Sanders
- Karen Buckley
- Clare Gale
- Robyn Hall
- Susana Birch
- sharon bradford //petitions.pm.gov.uk/Savekids/
- deborah southwick
- Lindsey Ford
- David Thomas - cb42.org //petitions.pm.gov.uk/cb42org/
- Tracey atcheson
- Anne McAllister
- Andrew Crayford //petitions.pm.gov.uk/CAN-YOU-IMAGINE/
- Frances Edwards
- Jonathan Jones
- Helen Downer
- Lucynda Kim Livingstone
- A. Dale
- Ben Siegle
- Catherine Francis
- Danielle Cook
- rebecca hurle
- Ben Slythe
- Martin Chester
- Wendy Amanda Clarke
- Sharon
- R Arnold (petitions.pm.gov.uk/UniformHelp/)
- Natalie Martin
- sarah dixon
- Joe Tenner
- Rachel Nguyen
- Filomena Pereira
- Liz Jordan
- Dawn Connor-van der Horst
- natasha hough
- SARAH SOFIDYA
- Lauren Kavanagh
- Gina Chamberlain
- Sandra Dando
- Lisa stevenson
- Geoff Riley
- Sam Davidson
- carol norton
- melanie thornton
- Lana Frye
- sarah stanbrook
- stephanie marsden
- Angela atherton
- joanne jones
- lisa paradise
- David Cunliffe
- lisa wilson
- kelvin knapper
- jane phillips
- Chris Maskens
- Jason Kellow-Webb
- Joanne Brock
- Pei T Chan
- Leanne Petty
- shawn sheppard
- kerri phillips
- clare johnson
- Amy Caines
- Judith Taylor
- paula lunken
- Sue Smith
- Laura Morgan
- katie ellison
- Maureen walker
- daniel hulance
- kerry hulance
- Trudie Ford
- toni seccombe
- Ann Moir
- M Lakey (petitions.number10.gov.uk/no-to-cover-up/)
- JOAN FRENCH(YCHILDREN)
- Keith Edmunds(petitions.number10.gov.uk/LGO-HARINGEY/)
- Jen Bolton
- fight4justice.co.uk/childabuse/coverup
- Anne Elliott
- tony crawford
- James Hetherington
