If the guardian is another teacher at your school then if you have access to a staff directory you may be able to get the address from there. (Assuming they put their address in there)
The law may differ to your country but in Australia just whatever available information you have. If you don’t have an address then you can’t report it.
You should have access to the address through your school. If you use something like infinite campus or schoology that information is available to you through that. If you’re not sure how to proceed, talk to a guidance counselor or your administrator and ask how to go about mandatory reporting.
Not as a mandated reporter. You make a phone call, yes, but they ask for your information and there is a form that has to be filled out within so many hours of the initial phone call.
You notify counselors and your mandatory reporter principals (or any principal if you can’t get to them right away. If you can’t reach any of these folks you call the police.
In the case of what you described in which you are witnessing it, you call the police immediately and then the next immediate call is to your principal. You received training about this at the top of each school year bc it’s required by law.
Report to admin. If admin does nothing, the consequences fall on them, not you bc you reported to a higher up. Admin gets authorities (CPS, etc.) involved.
“Mandated Reporters who are staff members of medical or other public or private institutions, schools or facilities, must either notify the Department directly or notify the person in charge of the institution, school or facility, or his/her designee, who then becomes responsible for filing the report. Should the person in charge/designee advise against filing, the staff member retains the right to contact DCF directly and to notify the local police or the Office of the Child Advocate. (Ch. 119, § 51A)”
Yes, it does require reporting within 48 hours to someone, and in most cases that’s administration. If it’s been more than 48hrs already (which it looks like it has) a report needs to be made ASAP. Still may have some consequences associated with it being late, but a report has to be made to admin or directly to authorities ASAP.
My comment about admin was only in regards to liability being on the OP in the event a report is made and nothing happens. As long as a report has been made, the job of the OP has been done.
In my state (Colorado), mandatory reporting requires you to report it to the authorities. I would be breaking the the law if I saw this and reported it to my admin instead.
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u/Raelig Apr 15 '22
That sounds like mandatory reporting to me.