Mandatory Reporting

This case began with couple Mr. and Mrs. Keller opening up a daycare in Austin Texas that was overwhelmingly positive and filled with fun activities for the kids that may attend. All of this came to a halt though, when one day a three year old girl who was already seeing a therapist for mental issues told her mother that Mr. Keller had assaulted her when she was at the daycare.

abuse or suspected abuse of vulnerable individuals is mandated to be reported in most states

The parents of the children might feel pressure to give permission to the therapist to use their children's data so that she will continue to provide services to

According to the National Children’s Alliance, one in four girls and one in six boys under the age of eighteen are at risk of being sexually abused but only according to what is reported. In the State of Texas, a professional has forty-eight hours to report any cause to believe a child been abused as stated in Sec. 261.101. As a foster parent and principal, Angela Sugarek and Carol Jeffery had a major moral responsibility and legal duty to report what her three year old foster son was displaying: behaving strangely and an anal injury.

1. Confidentiality must be kept at all times. You must have the senior practitioner’s and/or the parents’ permission before making formal observations of children. Do not to leave confidential material lying around they must be secured in a locked cabinet. Line of reporting-only talk to authorized personal about confidential material. This confidentially can only be broken when a child is at real risk.

Code Summary: Code Section 7525 discusses the rights of confidentiality that a taxpayer would have between his or her tax practitioner that is a federally authorized tax practitioner. In order to be a federally authorized tax practitioner, the practitioner must be authorized to practice before the Internal Revenue Service. The code section states that the communication between the taxpayer and the tax practitioner with respect to tax advice is protected under the same confidentiality protections that would exist between a taxpayer and an attorney. Some exceptions to this confidentiality do exist however. A taxpayer and tax practitioner are not protected if the details of the communication involve tax shelters, which is an investment strategy

Day Reporting Centers are intermediate sanction programs are innovations that serve as a step between the security and punishment of prisons and jails and the supervision without the security offered in probation and parole. Such programs as intensive supervision, house arrest, and electronic monitoring are becoming accepted alternatives to incarceration. Day Reporting Centers are another intermediate sanction that is gaining popularity. Day Reporting allows the treatment and supervision of arrested individuals and convicted offenders in a setting that is more secure than ordinary probation but less inhibiting and less expensive than incarceration. (Siegel and Bartollas, 2014 pg 104). In playing out this errand, Day Reporting Centers satisfy three particular and unmistakable purposes: 1) improved supervision and diminished freedom of the guilty party; 2) treatment of offenders issues; and 3) decreased crowding of imprisonment offices that this assortment of reason serves to fulfill an assortment of objectives in contrasting remedial methods of insight. The lessening of guilty party versatility and freedom bolsters a discipline reasoning and may go about as a particular obstruction to future criminal action. These confinements additionally take into account a specific measure of weakening and, in this way, security of the general population. The capacity to offer offenders required treatment aids their redress or recovery. In conclusion, Day Reporting is fundamentally less expensive to work that remedial organization, taking into account more prominent cost adequacy.

One factor that has led to discrepancies is the use of zero-tolerance policies in schools. Zero-tolerance policies picked up traction in the 1990’s and focused on the possession and use of drugs and weapons on school property. (Noll, Clashing Views on Controversial Education issues p.309) The Guns Free School Act of 1994 placed a one-year expulsion and referral to the juvenile court system for any student caught on campus with a weapon. (same as above) The debate on zero-tolerance has been centered on whether the policy has reduced violence in schools and if the policy is being used for the severest of offenses. In a 2014 address, Arne Duncan, then U.S. Secretary of Education, stated as many as 95 percent of school suspensions were for nonviolent

The reporting party (RP) stated on 11/10/16 the biological mother of David Jiron DOB: 3/6/11 reported he was transported to his visit with her on 11/8/16 without a booster car seat by social worker Liz Cardenas. The mother also stated the social worker grabbed David's arm and hand to prevent him from swinging a rake. Attached is an email from the social worker explaining the reason for not providing the booster car seat. The social worker stated due to the other two car seat there was not enough room for the booster seat therefore the child was secured with a seat

After reviewing the Texas Health and Safety Code in regards to restraints in a facility, it is understood that there are many different requirements when attempting to write a policy and procedure. In the policy, the following regulations will be instated, it needs to be known that only trained professionals are allowed to lawfully apply restraints to a person. The restraints used may not hinder the person’s ability to breathe in any aspect or hinder communication. Prior to the use of restraints, first the physician must physically assess the patient before providing an order for the use and thereafter if there is the need to continue the restraints. Once a restraint is applied, a nurse, other than the nurse that applied the restraints, is

The reporting party (RP) received a call from resident Amely Gonzales age 64 DOB: 12/17/51 stating that she is given $100 to purchase her food. According to the RP Amely have sleep apnea, obesity, kidney disease, and diabetes. Consequently the facility is not providing the appropriate foods to meet her medical

There are different categories of SREs and an example includes performing a surgery on the wrong patient and an example of product or device events is death resulting from use of contaminated drugs. (NQF Updates List of Serious Reportable Events and Identifies Applicable Settings).Defect devices received through a health care facility. SREs on surgical event can be prevented by ensuring that proper records of patient are kept by a qualified staff, and also care and due diligence is observed when the process is taking place in that a small error may result to death which is very adverse. The strategies to be used if it ever happens is that the health care facility should be conducting forums whereby care and due diligence

I sought advice from SFC Lynch on regular basis, as a Staff Sergeant at the time I looked up to him and learned quite a bit from him. Yet, none of the guidance and mentoring that he did with me was never mentioned in the NCOER. As an example SFC Lynch helped me rewrite the company’s Army Body Composition Program SOP. There was no mention of this in his NCOER, and I even gave that information to the 1SG on numerous occasions throughout the entire process. It seemed to me that anytime I mentioned SFC Lynch’s name to 1SG Charter there was always some tension. When I would bring up recommendations based on SFC Lynch’s guidance it was immediately dismissed with a comment like “SFC Lynch’s by the book approach isn’t always correct.” From my

A lack of knowledge can not only leave the child in danger of repeated abuse but places her in danger of legal ramifications. “Standard12 of The National Organization for Human Services (NOHS) suggests that all Human Service Workers be conscious of their local, state, and federal laws. Advocate for change in regulations and statutes that may violate ethical guidelines and/or client rights. If these laws are proven to be harmful to clients than clinician will closely consider the conflict between the values of obeying the law and the values of serving people.” (NOHS, 2016). Tamika should advise her supervisor of Melissa dating relationship along with the bruise found on Shane once returned. I believe she should not forget to mention that the father stated that Shane’s behavior had gotten better when it had

The trust between Heather and me as a Counsellor is a vital part of our therapeutic relationship. I am aware that my client must feel that whatever she discloses in therapy will be treated confidentially. As a counsellor I am not to disclose information unless required by law or authorized by my client. The informed consent document Heather has signed prior to our first session does not state particularly that the Counsellor has to break confidentiality in instances of child abuse.