1. Aim
To inform all employees of Aprils Daycare of the demand to describe suspected child maltreatment ( including sexual maltreatment ) or neglect and to inform employees of their unsusceptibility from civil liability or condemnable punishment for describing. To set up processs to be used by all employees of the day care in doing unwritten and written studies to the appropriate governments of suspected instances of kid maltreatment or disregard. To protect kids from maltreatment and disregard.

2. Definitions
Under this Policy. the maltreatment and disregard of a kid ( i. e. . any single under the age of 18 ( 18 ) old ages ) is defined as follows: Physical hurt non needfully seeable of a kid under fortunes that indicate that a child’s wellness or public assistance is harmed or at significant hazard of being harmed ; The discernible. identifiable. and significant damage of a child’s mental or psychological ability to map ; The failure to supply proper attention and attending to a kid. including go forthing a kid unattended. under fortunes that indicate that the child’s wellness or public assistance is harmed or placed at significant hazard of injury ; or Any act that involves sexual molestation or development of a kid ( i. e. . any sexual contact or behavior with a kid ) regardless of whether the kid has physical hurts.

3. Who Must Report
Any employee of the day care who has ground to believe that a kid has been subjected to mistreat ( including sexual maltreatment ) or neglect ( the “Reporter” ) by any parent. guardian. adoptive parent or other individual who has permanent or impermanent attention or detention or duty for the supervising of such kid ( including. without restriction. daycare employees ) . or any family or household member of such kid. shall do a study as directed below. An employee must move on the footing of any information and belief. The jurisprudence gives the Reporter really small latitude. 1. The Reporter must instantly advise and give all information required below to the caput of the day care ( the “Head” ) or. if the caput of the day care is unavailable. his or her designee ( the “Designee” ) . [ Note: The Daycare could take to hold more than one designee. ] a. If the Head and the Designee are non instantly available but will be available subsequently during that same day care twenty-four hours. the Reporter shall wait to do the study required above to the Head or the Designee every bit shortly as they are available.

B. If neither the Head nor the Designee will be available subsequently during that same school twenty-four hours. the Reporter shall follow the waies in Step 2. a. below. 2. After advising the Head or Designee. the Reporter. along with the Head or the Designee. must do an unwritten study ( by telephone or direct communicating ) every bit shortly as possible to the local Department of Social Services or the local jurisprudence enforcement bureau. Contact information is as follows: CFSD 1 ( 866 ) 820-5437.

a. If neither the Head nor the Designee will be available during that same school twenty-four hours. the Reporter shall do the unwritten study every bit shortly as possible without waiting to advise the Head or the Designee. 3. The Reporter must besides do a written study to the local Department of Social Services non subsequently than 48 ( 48 ) hours after the contact. scrutiny. attending. or intervention that caused the Reporter to believe that the kid had been subjected to mistreat ( including sexual maltreatment ) or neglect. The newsman should besides direct a transcript of the written study to the local Licensing Agency. Contact information is as follows: ( 406 ) 655-7633. o The written study must be signed either ( I ) by the Reporter or ( two ) by the Reporter and the Head or Designee. If the Reporter marks the written study without the attach toing signature of the Head or Designee. the Head or Designee must foremost reexamine the study unless neither is available to make so within the needed forty-eight ( 48 ) hours.

4. Contentss of Written Report
Equally far as is moderately possible. an unwritten or written study made under this Policy shall include the undermentioned information:
the name. age. and place reference of the kid ;
the name and place reference of the child’s parent or other individual responsible for the child’s attention ; the whereabouts of the kid ;
the nature and extent of the maltreatment or disregard of the kid. including any grounds or information available to the Reporter refering possible old cases of maltreatment or disregard ; and any other information that would assist to find ( I )
the cause of the suspected maltreatment or disregard ; and ( two ) the individuality of any single responsible for the maltreatment or disregard.

5. Unsusceptibility
Any individual who in good religion makes or participates in doing a study of maltreatment or disregard or participates in an probe or a resulting judicial proceeding is immune by province jurisprudence from any civil liability or condemnable punishment that would otherwise consequence from doing or take parting in a study of maltreatment or disregard or take parting in an probe or a resulting judicial proceeding.