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Failing to report or protect children from sexual crimes

Laws targeting sexual offences against children

Learn about laws making it a crime not to report sexual offending against children and, within institutions, not to protect a child from sexual abuse.

Failing to report sexual offences against children

A new law makes it a crime not to report a reasonable belief of sexual offending against a child in the absence of a reasonable excuse.

Failing to protect children from sexual offences

It is a crime in institutional settings for certain people not to protect a child from a known risk of sexual offending.