MR-02 — Children: Maltreatment Reporting under Chapter 260E

Minnesota Statutes section 245D.09, subdivision 4, requires your orientation to cover maltreatment reporting for children as well as vulnerable adults. Chapter 260E governs the maltreatment of minors, and it differs from the Vulnerable Adults Act in ways that matter when you are the one making the call. This lesson covers who counts as a minor, the eight categories of maltreatment under chapter 260E, where the report goes — which depends on whether the maltreatment happened inside a licensed program — and the written follow-up that chapter 260E requires and the adult process does not. You may support only adults. You are still a mandated reporter for children, and children are present in the settings you work in. The duty does not depend on who is on your caseload.

Learning Objectives

• Explain why staff in adult programs are mandated reporters for children
• List the categories of maltreatment under Minn. Stat. Chapter 260E
• Route a child report correctly — licensed facility versus other settings
• Describe the immediate oral report and the 72-hour written follow-up
• Recognise threatened injury and mental injury, and know both are reportable