Making a mandatory report can be stressful, but it’s important. Mandatory reporting can be defined as “anyone required by law to report actual or suspected abuse and/or neglect.” It’s most often ...

Every nurse is a mandatory reporter, but not all have experienced situations that have required them to report abuse or neglect. This legal responsibility is another badge nurses wear, but what does ...

Title IX protects against discrimination on the basis of sex. It is a part of the Education Amendments of 1972 and is enforced by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. Purdue has ...

Joe Cheray, an abuse survivor, testified Monday in favor of a bill that would make clergy mandated reporters when they suspect a child is being abused. (Kansas Reflector screen capture from the House ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Authority figures who fail to report allegations of crimes against children would have a lot more time to be brought up on charges ...

Debates about which types of authority figures should be mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect ended in one proposal’s failure and another’s advancement Wednesday at the South Dakota Capitol ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (KWCH) - A bill that would make clergy mandatory reporters of child abuse is struggling to pass in the Kansas House for the fourth consecutive year, with advocates and religious leaders ...

TOPEKA — Kansas ordained clergy would be mandated reporters of child abuse under a bill proposed Monday in the House Judiciary Committee, and proponents hope this will be the year it passes. House ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A bill to make coaches mandatory reporters in South Dakota unanimously passed through the Senate Judiciary committee Thursday. The bill adds coaches to the list of mandatory ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Cheray testified Monday in favor of a bill that would make clergy mandated reporters when they suspect a child is being abused ...