Iowa Code 232.79B – Safety plans
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1. For the purposes of this section, “safety plan” means a short-term, time-limited agreement entered into between the department and a child‘s parent designed to address signs of imminent or impending danger to a child identified by the department.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 232.79B
- Child: means any person under the age of eighteen years. See Iowa Code 232.68
- Court: means the juvenile court established under section 602. See Iowa Code 232.2
- Department: means the state department of human services and includes the local, county, and service area offices of the department. See Iowa Code 232.68
- Parent: means a biological or adoptive mother or father of a child; or a father whose paternity has been established by operation of law due to the individual's marriage to the mother at the time of conception, birth, or at any time during the period between conception and birth of the child, by order of a court of competent jurisdiction, or by administrative order when authorized by state law. See Iowa Code 232.2
- person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
2. Upon the department’s determination that potential harm to a child may be mitigated by the development of a safety plan, the department may enter into a safety plan with the child’s parent.
3. A safety plan shall not be construed as a removal from parental custody absent a court order placing the child with a person or facility other than the parent who entered into the safety plan.
4. The department shall adopt rules to implement this section.