Child Abuse and Neglect: a socio-legal Study of Mandatory Reporting in Australia

A note on the definition of ‘teacher’: the original 2008 definition

In the Children and Community Services Amendment (Reporting Sexual Abuse of Children) Act 2008, doctors, nurses, police, midwives and teachers were designated as mandated reporters. The legislation defined ‘teacher’ as (s 5):

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   a person who, under the Western Australian College of Teaching Act 2004, is registered, provisionally registered or has a limited authority to teach; or
   
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   a person who is appointed under the School Education Act 1999 s 236(2) as a
   

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   member of the teaching staff of a community kindergarten; or
   

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   a person who provides instruction in a course that is —
   

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   mentioned in the School Education Act 1999 s 11B(1)(a), (b) or (e); and
   
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   prescribed for the purposes of this definition;⁵⁴ or
   

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   a person who instructs or supervises a student who is participating in an activity that is—
   

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