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NO they are not. It can be requested by the parents with the childs consent but cannot be performed without the childs consent. The UK church going populace do not place a great emphasis on either confession or exorcism anyway, especially exorcism. The UK is mostly protestant not catholic too so confession does not play a large role in most peoples church going activities.

As in the USA, church and state are seperate entities.

Oh yes, and if a child was forced to undergo an exorcism it would be headline news and the family would be, well, let's say, not well treated by their community or the media.

Confession in catholic churches is fine for those of that faith but 'legal' that question doesn'?t even come up, you do it if you want to. The real question is forcing someone, a child, to do it. That is not legal, it has to be something the child want to do.

As an aside, baptism is mostly involuntary as most baptised people have it when they are babies, myself I choose to get baptised when I was 32 - Lutheran/Calvinist I am.