Code of Virginia - Title 63.2 Welfare (Social Services) - Chapter 15 Child Abuse And Neglect

63.2-1500 Description unavailable
Not set out. (Acts 2002, c. 747.) ...

63.2-1501 Definitions
As used in this chapter unless the context requires a different meaning: "Court" means the juvenile and domestic relations district court of the county or ...

63.2-1502 Establishment of Child-Protective Services Unit; duties
There is created a Child-Protective Services Unit in the Department that shall have the following powers and duties: 1. To evaluate and strengthen all local, ...

63.2-1503 Local departments to establish child-protective services; duties
A. Each local department shall establish child-protective services under a departmental coordinator within such department or with one or more adjacent local departments that shall ...

63.2-1504 Child-protective services differential response system
The Department shall implement a child-protective services differential response system in all local departments. The differential response system allows local departments to respond to valid ...

63.2-1505 Investigations by local departments
A. An investigation requires the collection of information necessary to determine: 1. The immediate safety needs of the child; 2. The protective and rehabilitative services ...

63.2-1506 Family assessments by local departments
A. A family assessment requires the collection of information necessary to determine: 1. The immediate safety needs of the child; 2. The protective and rehabilitative ...

63.2-1507 Cooperation by state entities
All law-enforcement departments and other state and local departments, agencies, authorities and institutions shall cooperate with each child-protective services coordinator of a local department and ...

63.2-1508 Valid report or complaint
A valid report or complaint means the local department has evaluated the information and allegations of the report or complaint and determined that the local ...

63.2-1509 (Effective until March 31, 2009) Physicians, nurses, teachers, etc., to report certain injuries to ...
A. The following persons who, in their professional or official capacity, have reason to suspect that a child is an abused or neglected child, shall ...

63.2-1510 Complaints by others of certain injuries to children
Any person who suspects that a child is an abused or neglected child may make a complaint concerning such child, except as hereinafter provided, to ...

63.2-1511 Complaints of abuse and neglect against school personnel; interagency agreement
A. If a teacher, principal or other person employed by a local school board or employed in a school operated by the Commonwealth is suspected ...

63.2-1512 Immunity of person making report, etc., from liability
Any person making a report pursuant to § 63.2-1509, a complaint pursuant to § 63.2-1510, or who takes a child into custody pursuant to § ...

63.2-1513 Knowingly making false reports; penalties
A. Any person fourteen years of age or older who makes or causes to be made a report of child abuse or neglect pursuant to ...

63.2-1514 Retention of records in all reports; procedures regarding unfounded reports alleged to be made in b...
A. The local department shall retain the records of all reports or complaints made pursuant to this chapter, in accordance with regulations adopted by the ...

63.2-1515 Central registry; disclosure of information
The central registry shall contain such information as shall be prescribed by Board regulation; however, when the founded case of abuse or neglect does not ...

63.2-1516 Tape recording child abuse investigations
Any person who is suspected of abuse or neglect of a child and who is the subject of an investigation or family assessment pursuant to ...

63.2-1516.01 Investigation procedures involving person who is the subject of complaint
The local department shall, at the initial time of contact with the person subject to a child abuse and neglect investigation, advise such person of ...

63.2-1516.1 Investigation procedures when school employee is subject of the complaint or report; release of inf...
A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, in cases where a child is alleged to have been abused or neglected by a ...

63.2-1517 Authority to take child into custody
A. A physician or child-protective services worker of a local department or law-enforcement official investigating a report or complaint of abuse and neglect may take ...

63.2-1518 Authority to talk to child or sibling
Any person required to make a report or conduct an investigation or family assessment, pursuant to this chapter may talk to any child suspected of ...

63.2-1519 Physician-patient and husband-wife privileges inapplicable
In any legal proceeding resulting from the filing of any report or complaint pursuant to this chapter, the physician-patient and husband-wife privileges shall not apply. ...

63.2-1520 Photographs and X-rays of child; use as evidence
In any case of suspected child abuse, photographs and X-rays of the child may be taken without the consent of the parent or other person ...

63.2-1521 Testimony by child using two-way closed-circuit television
A. In any civil proceeding involving alleged abuse or neglect of a child pursuant to this chapter or pursuant to §§ 16.1-241, 16.1-251, 16.1-252, 16.1-253, ...

63.2-1522 Admission of evidence of sexual acts with children
A. In any civil proceeding involving alleged abuse or neglect of a child pursuant to this chapter or pursuant to §§ 16.1-241, 16.1-251, 16.1-252, 16.1-253, ...

63.2-1523 Use of videotaped statements of complaining witnesses as evidence
A. In any civil proceeding involving alleged abuse or neglect of a child pursuant to this chapter or pursuant to §§ 16.1-241, 16.1-251, 16.1-252, 16.1-253, ...

63.2-1524 Court may order certain examinations
The court may order psychological, psychiatric and physical examinations of the child alleged to be abused or neglected and of the parents, guardians, caretakers or ...

63.2-1525 Prima facie evidence for removal of child custody
In the case of a petition in the court for removal of custody of a child alleged to have been abused or neglected, competent evidence ...

63.2-1526 Appeals of certain actions of local departments
A. A person who is suspected of or is found to have committed abuse or neglect may, within thirty days of being notified of that ...

63.2-1527 Board oversight duties; Out-of-Family Investigations Advisory Committee
A. The Board shall be responsible for establishing standards for out-of-family investigations and for the implementation of the family assessment track of the differential response ...

63.2-1528 Advisory Committee continued as Advisory Board
The Advisory Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect is continued and shall hereafter be known as the Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect. The ...

63.2-1529 Evaluation of the child-protective services differential response system
The Department shall evaluate and report on the impact and effectiveness of the implementation of the child-protective services differential response system in meeting the purposes ...