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TITLE 26HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
PART 1HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
CHAPTER 749MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES
SUBCHAPTER MFOSTER HOMES: SCREENINGS AND VERIFICATIONS
DIVISION 6SUPERVISION
RULE §749.2591How am I responsible for ensuring adequate supervision of children in care?

(a) Your child placement management staff must ensure that supervision of children in care adequately accounts for the following:

  (1) Specific needs of the children in care in each home;

  (2) Non-routine events taking place in the lives of individual children, the foster parents, or the group of children in care; and

  (3) The children's history, including background of abuse or neglect by caretakers, sexual or physical abuse against others, fire-setting, maiming or killing animals, suicide attempts, and run-away behaviors.

(b) Your child placement management staff must also approve a written plan for the increased supervision of a child who presents an immediate harm to himself or others.


Source Note: The provisions of this §749.2591 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 7469; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909

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