Mandated Reporters
Massachusetts law defines the following professionals as mandated reporters: What is DCF?
- Physicians, medical interns, hospital personnel engaged in the examination, care or treatment of persons, medical examiners
- Emergency medical technicians, dentists, nurses, chiropractors, podiatrists, optometrists, osteopaths
- Public or private school teachers, educational administrators, guidance or family counselors
- Early education, preschool, child care or after school program staff, including any person paid to care for, or work with, a child in any public or private facility, home or program funded or licensed by the Commonwealth, which provides child care or residential services. This includes child care resource and referral agencies, as well as voucher management agencies, family child care and child care food programs
- Child care licensors, such as staff from the Department of Early Education and Care
- Social workers, foster parents, probation officers, clerks magistrate of the district courts, and parole officers
- Firefighters and police officers
- School attendance officers, allied mental health and licensed human services professionals
- Psychiatrists, psychologists and clinical social workers, drug and alcoholism counselors
- Clergy members, including ordained or licensed leaders of any church or religious body, persons performing official duties on behalf of a church or religious body, or persons employed by a religious body to supervise, educate, coach, train or counsel a child on a regular basis
- The Child Advocate