➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: Policing Matters Podcast: Child abuse and mandatory reporting (Audio)
Police one – May 20, 2016
The national trend every year is for the stats on child abuse to precipitously drop off during the summer months. This is not because of an actual decrease in this violent crime — it is because we lose the mandatory reporting provided by teachers and school nurses because they no longer have contact with those kids.
http://www.policeone.com/investigations/articles/183265006-Policing-Matters-Podcast-Child-abuse-and-mandatory-reporting/