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Senator renews call for mandatory reporting of child abuse
Independent senator Hazel Thompson-Ahye -
THERE is a renewed call for the Office of the Prime Minister to make pass laws to make the reporting of child abuse mandatory after a recent UNICEF study showed 78 per cent of adults would not report instances of child abuse because it is not their business.
Independent Senator Hazel Thompson-Ahye said she has raised the issue of mandatory reporting time even in the Parliament, but it has fallen on deaf ears.
“Does the OPM have any plans to make a provision in the law that would make a person in the community report child abuse? There is no law that makes it mandatory at this time,” Thompson-Ahye said at the first of a two-day virtual child abuse and awareness and prevention symposium on Saturday.