Texas Administrative Code
Title 40 - SOCIAL SERVICES AND ASSISTANCE
Part 19 - DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES
Chapter 707 - CHILD PROTECTIVE INVESTIGATIONS
Subchapter C - CHILD CARE INVESTIGATIONS
Division 2 - OVERVIEW OF INVESTIGATION IN CHILD CARE OPERATIONS
Section 707.715 - What are the timeframes within which we must respond to a report of child abuse, neglect, or exploitation assigned for investigation?
Universal Citation: 40 TX Admin Code § 707.715
Current through Reg. 50, No. 13; March 28, 2025
(a) We assign priorities for reports of abuse, neglect, and exploitation based on the assessment of the immediacy of the risk and the severity of the possible harm to the child. Prior to initiating an investigation, we will review the intake report to determine if the initial priority and action recommended is appropriate or must be updated.
(1) Priority
I reports concern:
(A) death or immediate
risk of death; serious injury; or life-threatening abuse, neglect, or
exploitation; or
(B) imminent risk
of death, serious injury, or life-threatening abuse, neglect, or
exploitation.
(2)
Priority II reports are all other reports of abuse, neglect, or exploitation
that are not assigned a Priority I.
(b) Subject to the availability of funds, we must:
(1) Immediately respond to a report of
abuse, neglect, or exploitation that is assigned a Priority I and involves:
(A) the death of a child; or
(B) circumstances in which serious physical
or emotional harm or death of a child will result unless we immediately
intervene.
(2) Respond
within 24 hours to a report of abuse, neglect, or exploitation that is assigned
a Priority I and involves circumstances in which the threat of serious physical
or emotional harm or death of a child is not immediate but may occur in the
very near future unless we intervene.
(3) Respond within 72 hours to a report of
abuse, neglect, or exploitation that is assigned a Priority II.
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