COVID-19: Integration of Child Protection in Return to School

This document is a template referral pathway between education institutions and child protection authorities and other key services. It provides a broad, step by step process for schools to follow when:

1. there is suspicion that a student (child or adolescent) has experienced child abuse (violence, exploitation or neglect); or
2. there is a disclosure that a student has suffered child abuse, wherever that abuse has taken place.