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DSS proposes updates for adoption investigators including fingerprint checks and modest fee increases
Summary
The Department of Social Services proposed regulatory updates to adoption-investigator qualifications that would add educational alignment to human-services fields, require fingerprint and central-registry checks, and increase certification fees modestly.
The South Carolina Department of Social Services told the Senate Subcommittee on Child Welfare it proposes regulatory revisions to the certification and oversight of adoption investigators that would update educational qualifications, add mandatory fingerprint-based background checks and central abuse-and-neglect registry checks, and raise nominal certification fees.
Conley Ann Ragley, chief of external affairs for the Department of Social Services, told the…
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