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 cases of children who are in the custody of the agency to a caseworker who provides permanency services.

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 432.020
BDR: 432.020