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Senate approves child-welfare code revisions after amendment to protect parental counsel participation
Summary
The Utah Senate passed the third substitute to Senate Bill 128 on Feb. 19, 2019, after adopting technical and substantive amendments that clarify child-welfare procedures and explicitly preserve a partyor counsels ability to participate in child-and-family plan development when allowed by law.
The Utah State Senate on Feb. 19 passed the third substitute of Senate Bill 128, a lengthy revision of child-welfare procedures that clarifies Department of Human Services practices for child-protection complaints, licensing, juvenile-court requirements for residential placement and the development of child-and-family plans.
Sponsor Senator Daniel Harper (Senate) said Amendment No. 2 replaces the phrase "reasonable practices" with "best practices" in the child-welfare code to align terminology and clarify expectations for agencies and providers. Harper said the rewrite cleans up language across…
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