What does this mean for a school?
Whatever the policy says, a school still has to handle each report: classify it, give it an owner, follow it up, and see whether the same student has been reported before.
How Child Protect handles it
Child Protect does that on one record: the classification, the owner, the child's history across reports, and an audit timeline of every action.
Related
See case management.
Source
The Straits Times, via Asia News Network, 21 Aug 2026. Read the original report. General commentary, not legal advice.
Common questions
What does a zero-tolerance policy need to work in practice?
A process. A school still has to handle each report: classify it, give it an owner, follow it up, and see whether the same student has been reported before.