Int 0017-2006
Ensuring a timely, comprehensive response to all reports of child abuse and neglect.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on General Welfareintroduced 2006-02-01
Filed — closed without being enacted.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 2006-02-01Passed: 2009-12-31
Committee on General Welfare — Human Resources Administration/Department of Social Services, Department of Homeless Services, and charitable institutions.
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20 passed · 30 died
This bill: 1429 days in committee
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Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2006-02-01 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2006-02-01 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2009-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (1)
City Council · 2006-02-01 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 617 of the New York City charter, as added at the November 6, 2001 general election, is amended to add a new subdivision d to read as follows:
d. Caseloads for diagnostic child protective specialists. The department’s child protective services division shall have staff adequate to respond to all reports of child abuse and neglect in a timely, comprehensive manner. The maximum caseload for diagnostic child protective specialists or their equivalent shall be twelve cases. No diagnostic child protective specialist with less than one year of work experience in child protective services shall have a caseload that exceeds ten cases.
§ 2. This local law shall take effect one hundred and eighty days after enactment.
J.D.S.
LS #: 136
1/27/06