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TITLE 26 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
PART 1 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
CHAPTER 749 - MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES
SUBCHAPTER M - FOSTER HOMES: SCREENINGS AND VERIFICATIONS
SECTION/RULE §749.2591 - How am I responsible for ensuring adequate supervision of children in care?
Chapter Review Date 06/19/2024

(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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