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United States — Arizona
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The director must create an inspections bureau, and that bureau must monitor programs, report significant violations, support quality assurance, and have access to needed department records.
United States — Arizona
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The community advisory committee is created to advise on child welfare issues, and its members serve without compensation.
United States — Arizona
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The director may acquire and lease certain lands or buildings for department office space, but purchase or lease-purchase needs prior approval and an appropriation. Lease-purchase agreements also need review and approval before they take effect, and lease income must be credited to the department's occupancy appropriat
United States — Arizona
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The department must follow a set order to recover public assistance from legally responsible persons, may recover overpaid or ineligible support, and must place recovered money into the child safety collections fund.
United States — Arizona
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The department may give special housing assistance for children in open child safety services cases, subject to stated conditions and limits.
United States — Arizona
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Some department employees, and certain contractor or subcontractor IT employees, must have fingerprint clearance cards or proof they applied, and the department cannot disclose the collected information except for staff use in employment matters.
United States — Arizona
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The department may send required notices, decisions, orders, or letters by electronic means if the person being served consents.
United States — Arizona
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The auditor general must establish an audit team in the department of child safety, and the department must give the auditor general access to needed data in the prescribed manner and format.
United States — Arizona
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A child and family advocacy center must meet specific eligibility requirements to be considered for funding, and certain employees or agents are immune from civil liability for covered participation unless exceptions apply.
United States — Arizona
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The department may charge noncontracting licensees fees, must deposit the money in a child welfare licensing fee fund, and the fund must be used only for specified licensing and enforcement costs.
United States — Arizona
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The department of child safety must check whether children in its care can get federal benefits, apply for benefits when eligible, manage representative payee duties if appointed, give notice and annual accountings, and review cases each year.
United States — Arizona
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This section creates a child safety fatality and near fatality review team in the department of child safety and requires it to review child fatality and near fatality reports, hold regular meetings, prepare reports, and respond to information requests.
United States — Arizona
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Before increasing a child placement rate for a child welfare agency or group foster home, the department must submit the proposed increase to the joint legislative budget committee for review.
United States — Arizona
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The department must create a foster youth permanency pilot project team, and the team must carry out specified permanency-planning, review, meeting, access, and privacy-protection duties.
United States — Arizona
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This section creates the office of child welfare investigations, assigns its director control of the office, and sets duties for the office and child welfare investigators.
United States — Arizona
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Arizona’s healthy families program must be run by the department and must provide specified family-support services. Services generally require a participant request, a verbal explanation, and written informed consent; participants also have record-access and correction rights.
United States — Arizona
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This section defines terms used in the article, including different kinds of foster homes, foster parents, foster children, child welfare agencies, and related care settings.
United States — Arizona
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This section makes foster parent applicant/licensee and child welfare agency licensing information confidential, with specific exceptions for court-ordered release, certain department disclosures, and legislative oversight access.
United States — Arizona
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The division must supervise child welfare agencies and set rules, standards, and procedures for licensing, foster homes, training, payments, and related child welfare programs.
United States — Arizona
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The division must create a children and family services training program fund, the department may use the money only for specified reimbursement costs and not for staff salaries or expenses, and the director must report on the program in the annual report.