Practitioners acting for victims of child abuse should note that a statutory authority's duty of care in exercising child welfare powers may extend to an obligation to report abuse to police where that is the reasonable step required to protect the child, and that appellate courts may reassess factual findings based on documentary inferences rather than credibility.
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