Some people are legally required to report child abuse and/or neglect to statutory child protection services in Australia. This is known as mandatory reporting. All states and territories have mandatory reporting requirements, but the specific groups of people mandated to report and the types of maltreatment that it is mandatory to report may vary. However, all states and territories require doctors, nurses and a range of other health care professionals to report child abuse.

This tutorial complements and expands upon a previous tutorial, Identifying and Responding to Child Abuse and Neglect, which set out:
1. What types of maltreatment constitute child abuse and neglect.
2. What has to be reported to the relevant authorities and who has to report it.
3. The relevant sections of individual state's and territory's legislation and regulations on child abuse and neglect.

This tutorial focuses on health care professionals' duty to protect children from physical and/or sexual abuse by reporting it to the authorities. It defines and gives examples of these two types of child abuse. It also describes how the law protects health care professionals who report child abuse, and what their responsibilities are if their employer’s policies and protocols conflict with their legal duty to report it. At the end of the tutorial participants can download a table summarising the relevant legislation for each individual state or territory.

This tutorial is recommended for health care professionals with some experience in the field of child abuse and neglect, and/or those who have already completed the HealthStaffEd tutorial Identifying and Responding to Child Abuse and Neglect.

This tutorial is the first in a three-part series that addresses the presentation, diagnosis and management of wheeze in infants and children, which is one of the most commonly reported paediatric symptoms in Australia. It explains the different causes of wheeze and how to accurately assess it in an infant or child, and highlights the signs and symptoms that signal a deteriorating condition.

This tutorial focuses on the presentation and management of wheeze in infants (children aged up to 12 months). It deals in detail with bronchiolitis, the most common presentation of wheeze in infants, and respiratory syncytial virus, its most common cause. Evidence-based assessment and management strategies are discussed.

This tutorial focuses on the presentation and management of wheeze in children aged over a year. It deals in depth with asthma, which is the most common cause, and discusses two other common causes, foreign body aspiration and congenital airway abnormalities. A range of evidence-based prevention and management strategies are detailed.

This tutorial describes the four main types of child abuse and neglect, and the signs and symptoms that might indicate that children are being harmed in this way. It aims to give health care professionals greater confidence in identifying the warning signs of child abuse and neglect, and outlines their obligations in reporting it to the relevant authorities.