Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 50, December 14, 2024
Section 3130.12 - Responsibility for children and youth services(a) The Department and each of the 67 counties are jointly responsible for the achievement of the goal of children and youth services and for assuring the availability of adequate children and youth social services to children who need the services, regardless of race, sex, religion, settlement, residence, economic or social status.(b) The Department is responsible for: (1) Regulating the level and the scope of minimum children and youth services, minimum standards of children and youth services delivery and minimum standards of children and youth services administration, including the provision of procedural safeguards for parents and children when the goal of a family service plan is changed, or when a child's placement location or visitation arrangements are modified.(2) Supervising the administration of children and youth social services.(3) Reimbursing counties in accordance with Chapter 3140 (relating to planning and financial reimbursement requirements for county children and youth social service programs) for Department approved services provided in accordance with State laws and Department regulations.(4) Monitoring the county agencies to ensure compliance with minimum standards for children and youth services including the requirements of this chapter.(c) Each county is responsible for administering a program of children and youth social services that includes: (1) Services designed to keep children in their own homes; prevent abuse, neglect and exploitation; and help overcome problems that result in dependency and delinquency.(2) Temporary, substitute placement in foster family homes and residential child care facilities for a child in need of the care.(3) Services designed to reunite children and their families when children are in temporary, substitute placement.(4) Services to provide a permanent legally assured family for a child in temporary, substitute care who cannot be returned to his own home.(5) Service and care ordered by the court for children who have been adjudicated dependent or delinquent.The provisions of this § 3130.12 adopted December 21, 1990, effective 12/22/1990, 20 Pa.B. 6269.