Are You a Mandated Reporter?

If you are a professional who works with children and families, you are in a key position to help protect children from harm.

Minnesota law, and the laws of many other states, require professionals and their delegates who work with children to make a report if they know of or have reason to believe a child is being neglected or abused.

Mandated Reporters include professionals and their delegates in the following fields:

Health Care

• Hospital Administrators
• Medical personnel and professionals
• Dental professionals

Social Services

• Social workers
• Group home staff
• Foster parents
• Mental health professionals
• Psychologists
• Therapists
• Psychiatrists

Child Care

• Home childcare providers
• Childcare center staff
• Babysitters

Education

• Teachers and assistants
• School administrators
• School support staff

Law Enforcement

Guardians ad litem

Probation and correctional services

For more information about Mandated Reporting click here for a link to the MN Department of Human Resources publication, Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect: A Resource Guide for Mandated Reporters.

For more information about Mandated Reporting or for access to Search State statutes for issues related to child abuse and neglect visit the Child Welfare Information Gateway.