Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 903 – Reports required
(a) Any person, agency, organization or entity who knows or in good faith suspects child abuse or neglect shall make a report in accordance with § 904 of this title. For purposes of this section, “person” shall include, but shall not be limited to, any physician, any other person in the healing arts including any person licensed to render services in medicine, osteopathy or dentistry, any intern, resident, nurse, school employee, social worker, psychologist, medical examiner, hospital, health-care institution, the Medical Society of Delaware or law-enforcement agency. In addition to and not in lieu of reporting to the Department, any such person may also give oral or written notification of said knowledge or suspicion to any police officer who is in the presence of such person for the purpose of rendering assistance to the child in question or investigating the cause of the child’s injuries or condition.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 903
- Child: means any person who has not reached that person's own eighteenth birthday. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
- Department: means the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
- Neglect: means as defined in § 901 of Title 10. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
- Report: means the communication of an allegation of child abuse or neglect to the Department pursuant to § 903 or § 905 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 902
(b) The Department shall inform any person required to report under this section of the person’s right to obtain information concerning the disposition of the report. The Department shall make information on the general disposition of the report available through the Department report line to any person required to report under this section.
16 Del. C. 1953, § ?1002; 58 Del. Laws, c. 154; 60 Del. Laws, c. 494, § ?1; 72 Del. Laws, c. 179, § ?4; 77 Del. Laws, c. 320, § ?1; 81 Del. Laws, c. 144, § ?3; 83 Del. Laws, c. 228, § 1;