(a) a person who, in the course of his or her
professional work or other paid employment delivers health care, welfare,
education, children's services, residential services, or law enforcement,
wholly or partly, to children, and
(b) a person who holds a management
position in an organisation the duties of which include direct responsibility
for, or direct supervision of, the provision of health care, welfare,
education, children's services, residential services, or law enforcement,
wholly or partly, to children, and
(c) a person in religious ministry, or a
person providing religion-based activities to children, and
(d) a registered
psychologist providing a professional service as a psychologist.
(2) If--
(a)
a person to whom this section applies has reasonable grounds to suspect that a
child is at risk of significant harm, and
(b) those grounds arise during the
course of or from the person's work or role specified in subsection (1),
it is
the duty of the person to report, as soon as practicable, to the Secretary the
name, or a description, of the child and the grounds for suspecting that the
child is at risk of significant harm.
(3) A person to whom this section
applies satisfies his or her obligations under subsection (2) in relation to
two or more children that constitute a particular class of children if the
person reports that class of children to the Secretary together with--
(a) a
description that is sufficient to identify all the children who constitute the
class, and
(b) the grounds for suspecting that the children of that class are
at risk of significant harm.
(4) In this section--
"children's services" means either or both of the following (subject to the
regulations)--
(a) an education and care service within the meaning of the
Children (Education and Care Services) National Law (NSW) ,
