Reporting Child Abuse - North Dakota

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North Dakota

Under North Dakota law, certain professionals (including doctors and health care professionals, mental health professionals, teachers and school officials, social workers, child care providers, foster parents, law enforcement officers, or clergy, among others) are required to report any known or suspected child abuse to the department of human services (orally or in writing) if that information becomes known in their professional or official capacity. Any other person not specifically listed may report known or suspected abuse or neglect. Any oral report must be followed by a written report within forty-eight hours.

Abuse is defined to include physical, mental and sexual abuse.

Links to the specific sections of the official North Dakota Code online are not available. At this time, no links to these specific sections are available online from unofficial sources. The mandatory child abuse reporting act is located in Title 50 (Public Welfare), Chapter 50-25.1 (Child Abuse and Neglect), Sections 5-25.1-01 through 5-25.1-19. The link to title 50 of the official North Dakota Code online is:

http://www.legis.nd.gov/cencode/t50.html

The North Dakota department of human services website contains additional information on reporting and spotting child abuse:

http://www.nd.gov/dhs/services/childfamily/cps/#reporting

http://www.nd.gov/dhs/services/childfamily/cps/#mandating

http://www.nd.gov/dhs/services/childfamily/cps/#prevention

To find contact information for all local offices of the department of human services in order to report child abuse, follow:

http://www.nd.gov/dhs/locations/countysocialserv/index.html

To report child abuse in North Dakota, call:

800-245-3736 end_of_the_skype_highlighting