➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
United Kingdom: Would mandatory reporting help stop child abuse?
The Guardian – June 06, 2016
When a child dies or is catastrophically harmed because of abuse, there is often a knee-jerk political response. Perhaps the most chilling example for social workers was David Cameron’s announcement last year that they could find themselves jailed for five years for failing to act on evidence of child sexual abuse.
http://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2016/jun/06/mandatory-reporting-social-work-child-abuse