Washington Administrative Code › Title 110 - Children, Youth, and Families, Department of › Chapter 110-30 - Child protective services › PROGRAM DESCRIPTION › Section 110-30-0020 - What definitions apply to these rules?

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The following definitions apply to this chapter.
"Abuse or neglect"
means the injury, sexual
				  abuse, sexual exploitation, negligent treatment, or maltreatment of a child as
				  defined in RCW    26.44.020 and this chapter.
"Administrative hearing"
means a hearing held
				  before an administrative law judge and conducted according to chapter 34.05 RCW
				  and chapter 110-03 WAC.
"Administrative law judge (ALJ)"
is an impartial
				  decisionmaker who presides at an administrative hearing. The office of
				  administrative hearings, which is a state agency but not part of DCYF, employs
				  the ALJs.
"Alleged perpetrator"
means the person
				  identified in a CPS referral as being responsible for the alleged child abuse
				  or neglect.
"Alternative response system"
means a contracted
				  provider in a local community that responds to accepted CPS referrals that are
				  rated low or moderately low risk at the time of intake.
"Appellant"
means a person who requests an
				  administrative hearing to appeal a CPS finding.
"Behavioral health services"
has the same
				  meaning as in RCW    71.24.025.
"Child protection team (CPT)"
means a
				  multidisciplinary group of persons with at least four persons from professions
				  that provide services to abused or neglected children and/or parents of such
				  children. The CPT provides confidential case staffing and consultation to child
				  welfare cases.
"Child protective services (CPS)"
means the
				  section of the department of children, youth, and families for responding to
				  allegations of child abuse or neglect.
"Child welfare programs (CWP)"
means the
				  division in DCYF that provides child protective, child welfare, and support
				  services to children and their families.
"Department"
or
"DCYF"
means the
				  Washington state department of children, youth, and families.
"Finding"
means the final decision made by a CPS
				  caseworker after an investigation regarding alleged child abuse or
				  neglect.
"Founded"
means the determination following an
				  investigation by CPS that based on available information it is more likely than
				  not that child abuse or neglect did occur.
"Host home"
has the same meaning as in RCW
				     74.15.020.
"Inconclusive"
means the determination following
				  an investigation by CPS, prior to October 1, 2008, that based on available
				  information a decision cannot be made that more likely than not, child abuse or
				  neglect did or did not occur. Beginning October 1, 2008, the department no
				  longer makes inconclusive findings, but retains such findings made prior to
				  that date as provided in these rules.
"Licensing division (LD)"
means the division in
				  DCYF responsible for licensing group care and foster care facilities, and
				  responding to allegations of abuse or neglect in such facilities.
"Mandated reporter"
means a person required to
				  report alleged child abuse or neglect as defined in RCW    26.44.030.
"Preponderance of evidence"
means the evidence
				  presented in a hearing indicates more likely than not child abuse or neglect
				  did occur.
"Residential private schools"
has the same
				  meaning as in RCW    26.44.210.
"Screened-out report"
means a report of alleged
				  child abuse or neglect that the department had determined does not rise to the
				  level of credible report of abuse or neglect and is not referred for
				  investigation.
"Substance use disorder"
has the same meaning as
				  in RCW    71.24.025.
"Unfounded"
means the determination following an
				  investigation by CPS that based on available information it is more likely than
				  not that child abuse or neglect did not occur or there is insufficient evidence
				  for the department to determine whether the alleged child abuse did or did not
				  occur.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					   74.13.031,
					 74.04.050,
					 and chapter 26.44 RCW. WSR 08-18-040, §
											388-15-005,
					 filed 8/28/08, effective 10/1/08; WSR 02-15-098 and 02-17-045, §
											388-15-005,
					 filed 7/16/02 and 8/14/02, effective
					 2/10/03.