Effective 9/1/2022 80-2a-301. Division’s emergency placement of a child — Background checks. (1) The division may place a child in an emergency placement if: (a) the child welfare caseworker makes the determination that: (i) the child’s home is unsafe; (ii) removal is necessary under Section 80-2a-202; and (iii) the child’s custodial parent or guardian will […]
Effective 9/1/2022 80-2a-302. Reasonable efforts to maintain a child in the home — Exception — Reasonable efforts for reunification. (1) Because removal of a child from the child’s home affects protected, constitutional rights of the parent and has a dramatic, long-term impact on a child, the division shall: (a) if possible and appropriate, without danger […]
Effective 9/1/2022 80-2a-303. Child missing from division custody — Placement after locating child. (1) If the division receives information that a child in the protective custody, temporary custody, or custody of the division is missing, has been abducted, or has run away, the division shall: (a) within 24 hours after the time when the division […]
Effective 9/1/2022 80-2a-304. Removal of a child from foster family placement — Procedural due process. (1) (a) The Legislature finds that, except with regard to a child’s natural parent or guardian, a foster family has a very limited but recognized interest in the foster family’s familial relationship with a foster child who has been in […]
