Every child deserves to grow up in a permanent family.
The primary and preferred way of achieving this goal is to provide families experiencing turmoil with services to prevent the need to place children outside their home. When a child must be separated from his family, DCFS will provide a safe environment and will make efforts to provide services to reunite the family or to find the child a permanent home. A uniform protocol is used for screening and prioritizing all allegations of child maltreatment. This unit serves as the repository of all child maltreatment reports. The registry contains identifying data, dates and circumstances of any persons requesting or receiving information from the registry.