Showing posts with label Serious Crime Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Serious Crime Act. Show all posts

Tuesday, 28 April 2015

Mandatory reporting of FGM is a bad idea


The Serious Crime Act could undermine the relationship between professionals and the people they are trying to help.

The Home Office introduced a mandatory reporting duty in the Serious Crime Act (March 2015), believing it to be ‘an important step forward in tackling FGM [female genital mutiliation]’.