Keynote in Child Protection
DUTY TO REPORT
If a person has reasonable grounds to suspect that a child is or may be in need of protection, a report must be promptly made and shall include the information upon which it is based. You do not need to be sure that a child is or may be in need of protection to make a report to the Agency. “Reasonable grounds” are what an average person, given his or her training, experience, exercising normal and honest judgment would suspect. Once a report is made to the Agency, a determination will be made as to whether a protection investigation will be commenced. The person making the initial report should bear in mind that the duty to report is an ongoing obligation.
As such, if a person has made a previous report and has additional reasonable grounds to suspect that a child is or may be in need of protection, there continues to be responsibility to make a further report. It is also imperative that the person who has the reasonable grounds to suspect that a child is or may be in need of protection must make the report directly to the Agency. The person must not rely on another person to make the report on their behalf.
Safe to Belong by Malmesbury Abbey
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A Keynote in child protection. What is abuse and what to do is you are informed about abuse.
---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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