Certain people, including mediators, parenting coordinators, doctors, teachers, psychologists , and psychiatrists, have a positive duty to report children in need of protection to the ministry. Section 14 of the ''Act'' imposes a similar duty on anyone who believes a child is in need of protection, and makes it an offence not to report a child to the ministry. In other words, anyone — including a parent — who thinks a child needs to be protected from abuse, neglect, harm , or the threat of harm, must report the problem to the [http://www.gov.bc.ca/mcf/ Ministry for Children and Family Development].