Texas Administrative Code (Last Updated: March 27,2024) |
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 |
DIVISION 6. SUPERVISION |
SECTION 749.2591. How am I responsible for ensuring adequate supervision of children in care?
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(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