Existing law requires an agency which provides child welfare services to provide maintenance and special services to: (1) unmarried mothers and children awaiting adoptive placement; and (2) children who are placed in the custody of the agency, foster homes, homes of relatives other than parents or other facilities or institutions. (NRS 432.020) This bill prohibits an agency which provides child welfare services from assigning more than 30 children who are in the custody of the agency to a caseworker who provides permanency services, except: (1) to allow siblings to be assigned to the same caseworker; and (2) pursuant to a policy adopted by the agency which provides child welfare services that authorizes such assignment temporarily in emergency circumstances.

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 432.020
Reprint 1: 432.020
As Enrolled: 432.020
BDR: 432.020