The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has taken up a case on the evidentiary standard for the state Department of Public Welfare to maintain information from certain child-abuse reports on its ChildLine and Abuse Registry, the agency’s toll-free system for disclosing reports of child abuse to certain designated government officials, law enforcement and other third parties.
Under the state’s Child Protective Services Law, a person seeking employment in which there is a significant likelihood of direct contact with children or residing in a family day-care home must provide certification that he or she is not on the ChildLine registry.
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