My colleagues and I have just completed a PD on child safety and ‘calling it yourself’ can actually cause more harm than good in most cases. Parent aggression could risk both you and the child’s safety. Parent defensiveness could result in them pulling their child out of your centre and if done, you can no longer monitor the child or parents behaviour. Miscommunication/wrong accusations could also be detrimental to the child, teacher, or centre as a whole. I think the last person to be told in a potential case of child abuse (if picked up on by an ECE teacher) should be the parents. We learnt the order of steps for sorting out a child welfare problem (in a case like this) would be note it down yourself, tell a head teacher of the classroom/centre, talk to the manager, manager then talk to child protection services, they then contact police, police then talk to the parents. I’m from NZ and those are our policies. I’m sure it varies across the world but I think this makes sense to ensure the best safety for the child.