Incident reporting is necessary to facilitate prevention, ensuring that potential indicators concerning a family's history are tracked in order to avoid more serious situations. Failure to report an incident, for example of child abuse, could result in a second incident of child abuse and delay the family intervention and referral of the child to child services. Multidisciplinary team members can be automatically notified via email when incidents effecting their clients are reported, updated, or closed. For more information on reporting incidents for your clients, see Reporting Incidents.