The invitation to expose, modifying that particular offence, is definitely necessary to close the gap. A lot of offending, when it comes to that particular offence, is occurring online, where that is the invitation that is happening by the offender in terms of what they are asking the child to do. That is a very important provision to be adding to the code.
The other one you mentioned in terms of the recruitment of a child is another important one. I did not mention that in my opening remarks primarily in the interest of time. One thing that may bear looking more closely at is whether or not the offence itself needs to have the limitation that the person be in a position of trust or authority.
There is a lot of case law that has developed in the meaning of that term and, although I know there is a provision in the bill that clarifies that, if the person is over 18, that puts them in a position of trust or authority. That doesn't quite accord with how the case law has developed. There might need to be some tweaking on that, but fundamentally, the recruitment of a child to commit a criminal offence is real, it happens, so it is important to have that reflected in our offences.
