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HB 1360 Child protective services; statewide differential response system.

Introduced by: Mitchell Van Yahres | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

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Child protective services; statewide differential response system. Requires the Department of Social Services to implement a statewide child protective services differential response system (“system”) for responding to reports of child abuse and neglect. Rather than requiring a full-scale investigation of every report, the reports would now be evaluated by the local department of social services and less serious reports would be subject to a family assessment. The emphasis is on offering services rather than on making a determination of abuse or neglect. In family assessments, no disposition would be entered into the central registry. The Department shall publish a plan to implement the system in local departments of social services by July 1, 2000, and complete implementation in all local departments by July 1, 2003.


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