Section 3490.231. Functions of the county agency for general protective services

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.

The provisions of this § 3490.231 adopted July 2, 1999, effective July 3, 1999, 29 Pa.B. 3513.