Originally Posted by DaveA:
I was going to comment that I've been told that IL considers you a mandated reporter regardless of if you see it professionally or personally.
I was curious, so I looked it up. Apparently it only applies if it is a child known to us in a professional capacity:
"child care worker having reasonable cause to believe a child known to them in their professional or official capacity may be an abused child or a neglected child shall immediately report or cause a report to be made to the Department." (325 ILCS 5/4)
Obviously it should not stop anyone from making a report on suspected abuse or neglect.
I found it interesting that on the lengthy list of people that are mandated reporters is "homemaker."