A story from Boston illustrates one difficulty that mandated reporters often face, which is piecing together details that, by themselves,...

A federal clinic in Maine has agreed to an $8 million settlement of claims that its doctors failed to diagnose signs of child abuse. The...

Recently, I have seen an increasing number of people, including clients, get in trouble for failing to report suspected abuse either in...

A recent study concluded that states whose mandated reporter laws require only a suspicion of abuse, rather than a reasonable belief,...

An Arkansas prosecutor made a controversial decision not to charge school officials with failure to make a mandated report of a hazing...

An interesting study from Israel illustrates one of the core flaws that I have found in mandated reporting laws, which is that the...

Many youth-serving organizations tend to forget that, in most states, volunteers are mandated reporters of child abuse along with paid...

Most mandated reporter advice, including mine, concentrates on our responsibilities toward minors. Youth-serving organizations in...

In a case from England, an official report has blamed school personnel for the prosecution’s inability to prosecute child abuse within a...

California authorities have charged two vice-principals with failure to report child abuse and felony child abuse arising from failures...

A recently-published study reviewed whether increased school attendance in Ontario increased detection of child abuse. The researchers...

In a rare win for a mandated reporter, a Connecticut prosecutor cleared school employees accused of failing to report suspected abuse. A...