This is the maximum chronological age of a child that the Child & Family Services Act allows a Children's Aid Society to investigate.
What is 16 years?
100
This section, Section 1, talks about the use of corporal punishment, for example.
What is physical/sexual harm by comission?
100
This is a voluntary agreement that allows parents to maintain parental authority and still have the children be cared for by an approved foster home.
What is a Temporary Care Agreement?
100
This recording describes what the initial protection concerns are in relation to a family, and requires an eligibility code to help determine the agency's chosen response.
What is the initial Referral?
100
These two record checks are required for all child protection referrals that could possibly be opened for investigation.
What are "Internal" and "Provincial?"
200
These are the two main functions of a children's aid society, as described in section 15.
What are "investigate" and "protect?"
200
This section, Section 2, includes concepts such as inadequate supervision, for example.
What is harm by omission?
200
This is an order that allows children to remian at home and requires parents to abide by certain terms and conditions in order to resolve the identified protection issues.
What is a Supervision Order?
200
This recording allows the worker to choose either a "traditional" or "customized" approach, as well as outline the worker's proposed plan to complete the investigation.
What is the Investigation Plan?
200
The initial referral that is received by a worker must be documented within this amount of time.
What is 24 hours?
300
Section 72 of the act describes this, in part, as exercising reasonable suspicion and honest judgement.
What is "Duty to Report?"
300
This section, Section 3, includes such concepts as "denying emotional responsiveness."
What is emotional harm?
300
This is an order that places children in the care of the Society for a period of time while the parents abide by certain terms and conditions.
What is a Society Warship Order?
300
This recording documents safety threats that may have been identified during a worker's initial home visit, and describes any safety plan that was put into place.
What is the Safety Assessment?
300
Ongoing child protection clients are required to have contact with their workers at least this many times per month.
What is once per month?
400
This part of the act describes the obligation of a children's aid society to consult with a client's first nation community.
What is Part X?
400
This section, Section 4, deals with such issues as orphaned children, for example.
What is abandonment/separation?
400
This is an order that permanently places children in the care of the Society, with the possibility of adoption.
What is a Crown Wardship Order?
400
This recording calculates the level of perceived risk to children in the home of a client, and is based on factors such as the number of previous investigations and the presence of mental health concerns, for example.
What is a Risk Assessment?
400
If an investigation is not completed within 30 days, an extension can be granted to allow for its completion within this many days.
What is 60 days?
500
Section 37(2) of the act describes that a child is in need of protection when either or both of these two concepts are present.
What are "harm" and "risk of harm?"
500
This section, Section 5, deals with issues such as inadequate caregiving skills, for example.
What is caregiver capacity?
500
Formerly called "Disposition B," this recording allows the worker to either close a child protection service at the investigation stage or transfer it to ongoing status.
What is a Case Analysis?
500
This is the number of steps required for the completion of ALL family-based investigations, and includes such tasks as observing the child and interviewing the non-abusing caregiver.