Section 211 – Division responsibilities — Normalizing lives of children.

• (1) A child who comes into care under this chapter is entitled to participate in age-appropriate activities for the child’s emotional well-being and development of valuable life-coping skills.

• (2) The division shall make efforts to normalize the lives of children in the division’s custody and to empower a caregiver to approve or disapprove a child’s participation in activities based on the caregiver’s own assessment using a reasonable and prudent parent standard, without prior approval of the division.

• (3) The division shall allow a caregiver to make important decisions, similar to the decisions that a parent is entitled to make, regarding the child’s participation in activities.

Enacted by Chapter 67, 2014 General Session