The bruise on Wednesday
Your client mentions, near the end of the hour, that her partner grabbed their seven year old by...
Decision diagram
Duty to report, and the limits of confidentiality
Step through what has come to your attention and find what the law requires, permits or forbids, with the provision that governs each step.
Answer the questions below one at a time. Then run the three practice cases further down to test it.
Every branch below carries the provision it rests on, read against the consolidated text on e-Laws on 23 and 25 September 2026. Nothing here is legal advice, and a real decision takes consultation and, where records are sought, legal advice.
What has come to your attention?
Start from the fact that reached you, not from the feeling it produced.
What decides this step
CRPO Standards 3.1.1 and 1.3.1
“Registrants do not collect, use, or disclose information about a client without the informed consent of the client or their authorized representative, except as permitted or required by law.”
Three cases to run through it
One of these needs no report at all. Deciding that, and being able to say why, is the same skill as deciding to report.
The therapist she saw before
A client tells you that the psychotherapist she saw two years ago began a sexual relationship wi...
Something should happen to him
A client who was passed over at work says his manager has ruined his life and that somebody shou...