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Delayed child-abuse report justified discipline and a joint suspension order.
A discipline panel found professional misconduct where a registrant delayed until the next day making a mandatory report to a children’s aid society after receiving disclosures giving reasonable grounds to suspect child sexual abuse and a caregiver’s failure to protect.
The panel held that the immediate reporting duty under s. 125(1) of the Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017 was engaged and that the delay breached both the profession’s standard of practice and the misconduct regulation.
Applying the public-interest test governing joint submissions, the panel accepted an agreed penalty of a two-month suspension with a possible one-month remission tied to remediation, together with a reprimand and training terms.
The panel also accepted the joint costs submission of $4,700.
