                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

NOTICE OF DUTY TO REPORT CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT (§ 22.1-291.3)

Each public school board and each administrator of every private or parochial
school shall post, in each of their schools, a notice, pursuant to § 63.2-1509,
that: (i) any teacher or other person employed in a public or private school who
has reason to suspect that a child is an abused or neglected child, including
any child who may be abandoned, is required to report such suspected cases of
child abuse or neglect to local or state social services agencies or the person
in charge of the relevant school or his designee; and (ii) all persons required
to report cases of suspected child abuse or neglect are immune from civil or
criminal liability or administrative penalty or sanction on account of such
reports unless such person has acted in bad faith or with malicious purpose. The
notice shall also include the Virginia Department of Social Services&#8217;
toll-free child abuse and neglect hotline.

HISTORY: 2004, cc. 710, 752.