Reporting Abuse

To report child abuse or neglect in Tennessee please call the Child Abuse Hotline

1-877-237-0004 or go to https://apps.tn.gov/carat/

Who is a “Mandated” reporter of child abuse and neglect?

Everyone in Tennessee is a mandated reporter. Tennessee Code Annotated 37-1-403(i) (1) requires all persons to report suspected cases of child abuse or neglect. “Any person who has knowledge of or is called upon to render aid to any child who is suffering from or has sustained any wound, injury, disability, or physical or mental condition shall report such harm immediately if the harm is of such a nature as to reasonably indicate that it has been caused by brutality abuse, or neglect or that, on basis of available information, reasonably appears to have been caused by brutality, abuse, or neglect.”