What conditions would have to be present to consider moving a child from the home into protective custody without a hearing?
What will be an ideal response?
Under welfare regulations and codes, an officer may take a child into temporary custody without a warrant if there is an emergency or if the officer has reason to believe that leaving the child in the present situation would subject the child to further abuse or harm. Temporary custody without hearing usually means for 48 hours.
Conditions that would justify placing a child in protective custody include:
• The child's age or physical or mental condition makes the child incapable of self
protection.
• The home's physical environment poses an immediate threat to the child.
• The child needs immediate medical or psychiatric care, and the parents refuse to get
it.
• The parents cannot or will not provide for the child's basic needs.
• Maltreatment in the home could permanently damage the child physically or
emotionally.
• The parents may abandon the child.
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