COUNTY RESPONSIBILITIES
Each county agency is responsible for administering a program of general protective services to children that is consistent with the agency’s objectives to:
- (1) Keep children safely in their own homes, whenever possible.
- (2) Prevent abuse, neglect and exploitation of children.
- (3) Overcome problems that could result in dependency.
- (4) Provide temporary, substitute placement in the home of a relative, other individual who has a significant relationship with the child or the child’s family, a foster family home or residential child-care facility for children in need of this care.
- (5) Reunite children safely with their families, whenever possible, when children are in temporary, substitute placement.
- (6) Provide a permanent, legally assured family for children in temporary, substitute care who cannot be returned to their own home.
- (7) Provide services and care ordered by the court for children who have been adjudicated dependent.
Source
The provisions of this § 3490.231 adopted July 2, 1999, effective July 3, 1999, 29 Pa.B. 3513.