Maccabi Canada Reporting Procedure
All contractors, employees and volunteers who are aware of alleged or suspected abuse of any child or any participant in our programs (regardless of age) by another contractor, employee or volunteer of MC must immediately also report this information to Tali Dubrovsky 416-398-0515 x 202.
If the victim is an adult, the alleged, suspected or witnessed abuse will be reported by MC to police. If a victim is a child, MC will also report the alleged, suspected or witnessed abuse to the local CAS and police as outlined above.
Mandatory Reporting – Child Abuse
Any contractor, employee or volunteer who has reasonable grounds to suspect that a child is or may be in need of protection must promptly report the suspicion and information upon which it is based to a Children’s Aid Society (“CAS”). This includes physical, emotional and sexual abuse of a child by anyone. “Reasonable grounds” refers to the information that an average person, using normal and honest judgement, would need in order to decide to report.
In Toronto, you may make a report to the CAS (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) by calling:
Children’s Aid Society of Toronto: (416) 924-4646
Catholic Children’s Aid Society: (416) 395-1500
Jewish Family & Child Services: (416) 638-7800
Native Child & Family Services of Toronto: (416) 969-8510
You may make a report of a child in need of protection to any of the above agencies, regardless of the child’s ethnicity or religion.
MC will report all reasonable suspicions of a child in need of protection to the CAS and the appropriate law enforcement agency, without notifying the accused contractor, employee or volunteer.
You may not conduct your own investigation into allegations or suspicions of potentially illegal or inappropriate behaviour.