Section 5-524 - Child welfare services.
§ 5-524. Child welfare services.
The Administration shall provide child welfare services to a child and the child's parent or guardian:
(1) to assist in preventing the necessity of placing the child outside of the child's home;
(2) to reunite the child with the child's parent or guardian after the child has been placed in foster care; or
(3) if the child has been placed in foster care and cannot return to the child's parent or guardian, to develop and implement an alternative permanent plan for the child.
[An. Code 1957, art. 88A, § 61; 1984, ch. 296, § 2; 1987, ch. 696; 1988, ch. 182.]