New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 18 - DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter II - Regulations of the Department of Social Services
Subchapter C - Social Services
Article 5 - Adult and Family Services
Part 462 - Nonresidential Services For Victims Of Domestic Violence
Section 462.8 - Reporting of child abuse
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
(a) Employees of non-residential program for victims of domestic violence operated directly by a social services district or by a not-for-profit organization pursuant to a purchase of services contract with a social services district must report any incidents of suspected child abuse or maltreatment to the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment (SCR), or cause such a report to be made, when an employee has reasonable cause to suspect that a child coming before them has been abused or maltreated, or when a child's parent or other person legally responsible for a child comes before them in their professional or official capacity and provides information that gives the employee a reasonable basis to suspect that a child is being abused or maltreated. This must be done in the following manner:
