Child Sexual Abuse: Mandatory Reporting & How We Still Don't Have it | Alex Renton | Dino Nocivelli

What is the government doing regarding mandatory sexual reporting?
After £200 million spent on the IICSA, Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, what has been the outcome.
Today's conversation is with two of the leading voices campaigning against child sexual abuse.
Lawyer and partner, Dino Nocivelli and author, Alex Renton.
What does this new amendment mean?
And what can you do?
To find out more about Voices Unbound please visit: voicesunbound.org.uk/
And Mandate Now: mandatenow.org.uk/
For the lastest article from Mandate Now about the new legislation: mandatenow.org.uk/the-governm...
And this is the letter/ press release that you can send to your local MP: voicesunbound.org.uk/current-...
Alex Renton is a writer and journalist whose career has ranged from arts and food writing to politics and the investigation of child abuse. His career as a war reporter and development worker took him to the Middle East, Africa, East Asia and the Balkans. He has worked for The Independent, The Times, Newsweek, and the London Evening Standard and contributed to a host of other newspapers and magazines. He is also the author of the e-book Planet Carnivore: how cheap meat costs the earth (Guardian Shorts, 2015). Alex has won many awards for his work in investigative journalism, conflict and development reporting and for food writing, including the One World Award and the Glenfiddich Trophy. Born in Canada, educated in English boarding schools and at Exeter University, Alex now lives in Edinburgh with his wife, son and daughter.
Dino Nocivelli is a partner in the abuse department at Leigh Day law firm and joined the company in 2022. Dino specialises in actions for child sexual abuse survivors. Dino has appeared in a significant number of media publications providing his expert opinion and commentary, including among others the BBC, ITV and the Guardian. He has also provided evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).
Questions for Alex and Dino:
1. What's happening with regards the mandatory reporting, IICSA and the Criminal Justice Bill?
2. The government came out with the latest ruling regarding mandatory reporting last week. What was changed?
3. Alexis Jay, the head of IICSA said that she was deeply disappointment by the new bill. Do you agree. If so why?
4. “The measures are a sham - worse than useless: this legislation will put back the cause of getting good law in place to protect children today in any institution, from schools and care homes to hospitals and sports clubs.” Voices Unbound
5. What can we do to turn this around? Who can we contact or speak to?
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[@tomcollins9984]

Very informative episode Piers, Dino and Alex. All 3 men are tireless servants of the desire for a better world for survivors of all kinds of abuse and neglect. I’ll be writing to my MP and adding my support to voices unbound. In my view children are treated as 2nd class citizens in many countries, including the U.K. They are not given the airtime or support they need or deserve. Much of which is driven be ridiculous Victorian notions and boarding school culture that we’ve colonially exported all over the world. Sort it out government and policy makers, and finally do the right thing for goodness sake!

[@pierscross]

Thanks Tom. I still find it shocking. We really don't seem to care for our children. Thanks for writing to your MP, take care, Piers

[@richardrickford3028]

I appreciate that boarding school abuse is only a small slice of the scope of this problem. I do not wish to belittle how much horrific abuse there is in some state schools, and in some churches and in some youth groups. And so the list goes on. Because I was sexually abused at boarding school that is what I feel qualified to comment on. There is a saying apparently among old Etonians "Have you been to school?" It is a very telling phrase in what it says about Eton and the kind of attitudes that are bred there. Basically it implies that if you haven't been to Eton you have not really been to school. Or you haven't been to a school that is worthy of the name. I think there is a huge relationship between this type of elitist attitude and sexual and other abuse at public school. I say this as someone who comes from a rich upper middle class family who was sent to boarding school myself and was sexually interfered with. This elitism says basically - one rule for them with their PC Plods and their little social workers and their need to behave. Another rule for us who are living beyond that silly plebian rubbish. None of these silly little people have anything to do with us. We make our own rules.I am not saying that all ex Etonians have this attitude or that it is shared by all former boarders. The situation is much more complex and interesting than that. However as long as this elitism remains a strong established view among a significant number of people then abuse is always going to covered up by elitist institutions. It is basically a form of moral sickness that it exists in our society. And as long as it exists we are not going to get mandatory reporting because those in charge will stick up for their elitist organisations. Asking a conservative government to vote yes for mandatory reporting of abuse is like asking a load of pigs to vote for pork pies. We have a long tough road ahead but we need to combat elitism (one set of rules for us and for you dear pleb another) before we can insure a victory on one of the effects of elitism (boarding schools covering up sexual abuse and the dumbing down of mandatory reporting)

[@richardrickford3028]

Dino asks a very good question about why Rwanda gets so much attention and the government has already spent £500 Million on it. I think at least part of the answer is that the Tory government wants to divert people away from their failure with domestic policies like dealing with poverty and making this country a genuinely more even society. They do this by "talking tough" and "acting tough" about immigration. This really excites some people and gets them going. If the government "talks tough" then that can make them feel a little more "tough" and together themselves. There is a seduction to this. It develops a false morality through righteous hatred of some stereotypical "bad person" whether that is a scrounging and abusive immigrant or someone fiddling the benefits system and being lazy and pretending to be mentally ill so they don't have to go to work. All these dreadful stereotypes are actually crass and trashy (how often does the government go on about rich Tory supporters dodging paying taxes?) but they can serve as a diversionary tactic. With mandatory reporting of sexual abuse we have a far bigger and far more evil issue upon which the government has really done an "Uncle Fudgie". Goodbye Uncle Fudgie is a very good one man show about boarding school. Check it out on U tube.

[@pierscross]

Thanks Richard, very insightful, take care, Piers

[@dfordiligence2398]

9:55 - Why on earth are you implying that Jimmy Savile has been proven guilty?