(a) Employees of non-residential program for victims of domestic violence operated directly by a social services district or by a not-for-profit organization pursuant to a purchase of services contract with a social services district must report any incidents of suspected child abuse or maltreatment to the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment (SCR), or cause such a report to be made, when an employee has reasonable cause to suspect that a child coming before them has been abused or maltreated, or when a child's parent or other person legally responsible for a child comes before them in their professional or official capacity and provides information that gives the employee a reasonable basis to suspect that a child is being abused or maltreated. This must be done in the following manner:

1. (1) Non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence must make an immediate report to the SCR by telephone, followed by a written report within 48 hours, in the form and manner prescribed by the office, to the child protective service of the social services district in the county in which the child resided at the time of the suspected incident.
2. (2) After making the initial report, the reporting employee must immediately notify the director of the program or a designee that the report was made.