6/27/25, 8:41
AM
MANDATED EXCEPTIONS OF: CHILD ABUSE EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST
UPDATE GRADED A++ 2025/2026
1. report in professional capacity or within
scope of employment, has knowledge of or
observes and knows or reasonably
What are some mandated suspicion
reporters 2. report 2nd or 3rd hand info in professional capacity
responsibilities ? 3. report to agency in CA, regardless of location of
abuse, abuser or victim.
4. Agencies such as police and sheriff department.
5. alcohol and drug counselors in private or
state Licensed or certified treatment
program are reporters.
1. Call CPS to let them decide;
What to do if you are 2. document the call, and person to whom the question
unsure to report? is directed;
3. Document cited law that mandates that report be
made (Penal Code 11165.9)
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1. reasonable suspicion
2. actual observation is not necessary. "proof" not
needed
3. any single incident must be reported
4. does not require certainty to arrive at "reasonable
suspicion"
5. to report, not investigate. only knowledge or
reasonable suspicion
6. if child is taken out of state, it is not
mandated report unless you have knowledge
child is being endangered
7. laws are written for over-reporting
8. each new incident must be reported,
even if a previous report was made
regarding the same child and/or same
abuser
9. any new info to reported child abuse case must be
What are some
reported
considerations?
10. if several professionals have knowledge, eh
has the duty to report, but only one is needed
to be made. if assigned person doesn't report,
2/
10
AM
MANDATED EXCEPTIONS OF: CHILD ABUSE EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED LATEST
UPDATE GRADED A++ 2025/2026
1. report in professional capacity or within
scope of employment, has knowledge of or
observes and knows or reasonably
What are some mandated suspicion
reporters 2. report 2nd or 3rd hand info in professional capacity
responsibilities ? 3. report to agency in CA, regardless of location of
abuse, abuser or victim.
4. Agencies such as police and sheriff department.
5. alcohol and drug counselors in private or
state Licensed or certified treatment
program are reporters.
1. Call CPS to let them decide;
What to do if you are 2. document the call, and person to whom the question
unsure to report? is directed;
3. Document cited law that mandates that report be
made (Penal Code 11165.9)
1/
10
, 6/27/25, 8:41
AM
1. reasonable suspicion
2. actual observation is not necessary. "proof" not
needed
3. any single incident must be reported
4. does not require certainty to arrive at "reasonable
suspicion"
5. to report, not investigate. only knowledge or
reasonable suspicion
6. if child is taken out of state, it is not
mandated report unless you have knowledge
child is being endangered
7. laws are written for over-reporting
8. each new incident must be reported,
even if a previous report was made
regarding the same child and/or same
abuser
9. any new info to reported child abuse case must be
What are some
reported
considerations?
10. if several professionals have knowledge, eh
has the duty to report, but only one is needed
to be made. if assigned person doesn't report,
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10
