ABOVE PHOTO: Neil Harding and Greg Evans presenting this Dilworth Law petition to Coral Shaw - Chair of the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry.

The ‘Dilworth Law’ is the mandatory reporting of child abuse to police.

This petition is asking the New Zealand government to implement the “DIlworth Law” This law would require a person or entity to report to police if a child or young person is at risk of significant harm, the child or young person has been, or is at risk of being, physically or sexually abused or ill-treated. This law already exists in NSW under the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 No 157 Part 2 Reports 23 Child or young person at risk of significant harm (c)  the child or young person has been, or is at risk of being, physically or sexually abused or ill-treated,

Had this law been in place in New Zealand from 1960 I believe this law would have helped prevent the ongoing abuse and in particular the cover up perpetrated by Dilworth School for 50 years with more than 30 paedophiles and more than 150 victims.

DIlworth School admitted at the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry that they never investigated most of the child sexual abuse complaints and they provided paedophile's with glowing references when they asked them to move on.