These are: definitional understandings of domestic violence and child abuse; child protection legislative changes, including mandatory reporting and domestic violence as a child-at-risk category; and the NSW child protection statutory authority's response to domestic violence. The interplay between these...
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3.2. Child protection services in the participating countries Table 2 illustrates the characteristics of each country with respect to its CPS system, including the issue of mandatory reporting. As can be seen from the table, most of the countries (except Germany) require mandatory reporting of CM...
. Based on the jurisdiction, the severity of suspected maltreatment impacts on whether the incidence is reportable or not (Matthews, 2014a). Most jurisdictional mandatory reporting legislation is directed at reporting Get Access
Recently, child protection data for 2003–2004 has been released. This provides an opportunity to re-examine some child protection issues and the effectiveness of mandatory reporting 5 years on. These have been tumultuous years. Each state and territory has held major inquiries into this area of ...
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The study was conducted in two local health districts in NSW. These sites were selected because the assessment and depression screening processes had been in place in the antenatal period for over five years; however, implementation of assessment following birth was more recent in both sites. Both...
The authors conducted a project analysing data collected by social workers in the course of practice, recorded on a Mandatory Reporter Guide on-line tool, introduced with the 'Keep the Safe' policy. The audit indicated that the changed criteria for reporting to the statutory child protection ...
Mandatory reporting protocols require that police refer all children they identify as “at risk of significant harm” to child protection services. In the COPS data set, these children are designated as “at-risk”, in addition to any other involvement type. The “at-risk“ indicator was not ...
Both groups of professionals have indicated that they are aware of their mandatory reporting role, but few are familiar with the content and the language of the law (Feng et al., submitted for publication, Feng and Levine, 2005). Child protection legislation and protocols are complex and vague...