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No report in any newspaper, magazine, or news sheet of any inquiry or investigation of any case or proceeding before any competent authority in which a child is involved shall disclose the name, address or school or any other particulars calculated to lead to the identification of any such child, nor shall any picture of any such child be published: Provided that for reasons to be recorded in writing the authority trying the case or holding the proceeding may permit the disclosure of any such report if in its opinion, such disclosure is in the interests of child‟s welfare and it is Report of Probation Officers and other reports to be treated as confidential. Prohibition of publication of names, etc; of children involved in the cases of proceedings under the Act. 14 [Act No.26 of 1979] not likely to affect adversely the interests of the child concerned. CHAPTER III CHILDREN‟S HOMES, CERTIFIED SCHOOLS, OBSERVATION HOMES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.