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Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act

  • 325 ILCS 5/1— This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act
  • 325 ILCS 5/2
  • 325 ILCS 5/2.1— Any person or family seeking assistance in meeting child care responsibilities may use the services and facilities established by this Act which may assist in meeting such responsibilities
  • 325 ILCS 5/3— As used in this Act unless the context otherwise requires: "Adult resident" means any person between 18 and 22 years of age who resides in any facility licensed by the Department under the Child Care Act of 1969
  • 325 ILCS 5/4— Persons required to report; privileged communications; transmitting false report
  • 325 ILCS 5/4.1— Any person required to report under this Act who has reasonable cause to suspect that a child has died as a result of abuse or neglect shall also immediately report the person's suspicion to the appropriate medical examiner or coroner
  • 325 ILCS 5/4.02— Any physician who willfully fails to report suspected child abuse or neglect as required by this Act shall be referred to the Illinois State Medical Disciplinary Board for action in accordance with paragraph 22 of Section 22 of the Medical Practice Act of 1987
  • 325 ILCS 5/4.2— Departmental report on death or serious life-threatening injury of child
  • 325 ILCS 5/4.3— DCFS duty to report
  • 325 ILCS 5/4.4— (Repealed)
  • 325 ILCS 5/4.4a— Department of Children and Family Services duty to report to Department of Human Services' Office of Inspector General
  • 325 ILCS 5/4.4b— Department of Children and Family Services' duty to report to a Department of Defense Family Advocacy Program
  • 325 ILCS 5/4.4c— Duty to notify the Directors of Public Health and Healthcare and Family Services
  • 325 ILCS 5/4.5— Electronic and information technology workers; reporting child sexual abuse material
  • 325 ILCS 5/5
  • 325 ILCS 5/6
  • 325 ILCS 5/7— Time and manner of making reports
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.01— Reports made by mandated reporters that require a child welfare services referral
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.1
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.2— The Department shall establish a Child Protective Service Unit within each geographic region as designated by the Director of the Department
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.3
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.3a— The Director of the Department shall appoint a Perinatal Coordinator who shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches with a specialty certification in pediatric care
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.3b— All persons required to report under Section 4 may refer to the Department of Human Services any pregnant person in this State who has a substance use disorder as defined in the Substance Use Disorder Act
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.3c— Substance abuse services for parents with children
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.4— (a) The Department shall be capable of receiving reports of suspected child abuse or neglect 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.4a— Domestic violence co-location program
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.5
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.6— There shall be a single State-wide, toll-free telephone number established and maintained by the Department which all persons, whether or not mandated by law, may use to report suspected child abuse or neglect at any hour of the day or night, on any day of the week
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.7— There shall be a central register of all cases of suspected child abuse or neglect reported and maintained by the Department under this Act
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.8— Upon receiving an oral or written report of suspected child abuse or neglect, the Department shall immediately notify, either orally or electronically, the Child Protective Service Unit of a previous report concerning a subject of the present report or other pertinent information
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.9— The Department shall prepare, print, and distribute initial, preliminary, and final reporting forms to each Child Protective Service Unit
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.10— Upon the receipt of each oral report made under this Act, the Child Protective Service Unit shall immediately transmit a copy thereof to the state central register of child abuse and neglect
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.12
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.13— The reports made under this Act may contain such additional information in the furtherance of the purposes of this Act as the Department, by rule, may require
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.14— All reports in the central register shall be classified in one of three categories: "indicated", "unfounded" or "undetermined", as the case may be
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.15— The central register may contain such other information which the Department determines to be in furtherance of the purposes of this Act
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.16— For any investigation or appeal initiated on or after, or pending on July 1, 1998, the following time frames shall apply
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.17— To the fullest extent possible, written notice of any amendment, expunction, or removal of any record made under this Act shall be served upon each subject of such report and the appropriate Child Protective Service Unit
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.18— Pursuant to Sections 7.15 and 7.16 and for good cause shown, the Child Protective Service Unit may amend any report previously sent to the State-wide center
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.19— Upon request, a subject of a report shall be entitled to receive a copy of all information contained in the central register pertaining to the subject's case
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.20— Inter-agency agreements for information
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.21— Multidisciplinary Review Committee
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.22— Reviews of unfounded reports
  • 325 ILCS 5/7.22a— Reports subject to review
  • 325 ILCS 5/8.1— If the Child Protective Service Unit determines after investigating a report that there is no credible evidence that a child is abused or neglected, it shall deem the report to be an unfounded report
  • 325 ILCS 5/8.2
  • 325 ILCS 5/8.2a— Developmental and social-emotional screening; indicated finding of abuse or neglect
  • 325 ILCS 5/8.3— The Department shall assist a Circuit Court during all stages of the court proceeding in accordance with the purposes of this Act and the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 by providing full, complete, and accurate information to the court and by appearing in court if requested by the court
  • 325 ILCS 5/8.4— The Department shall provide or arrange for and monitor, as authorized by this Act, rehabilitative services for children and their families on a voluntary basis or under a final or intermediate order of the Court
  • 325 ILCS 5/8.5— The Child Protective Service Unit shall maintain a local child abuse and neglect index of all cases reported under this Act which will enable it to determine the location of case records and to monitor the timely and proper investigation and disposition of cases
  • 325 ILCS 5/8.6— Reports to a child's school
  • 325 ILCS 5/9
  • 325 ILCS 5/9.1— Employer discrimination
  • 325 ILCS 5/10— Any person who makes a report or who investigates a report under this Act shall testify fully in any judicial proceeding or administrative hearing resulting from such report, as to any evidence of abuse or neglect, or the cause thereof
  • 325 ILCS 5/11— All records concerning reports of child abuse and neglect or records concerning referrals under this Act and all records generated as a result of such reports or referrals, shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed except as specifically authorized by this Act or other applicable law
  • 325 ILCS 5/11.1— Access to records
  • 325 ILCS 5/11.1a— Disclosure of information
  • 325 ILCS 5/11.2— Disclosure to mandated reporting source
  • 325 ILCS 5/11.2a— Disclosure to extended family member
  • 325 ILCS 5/11.3— A person given access to the names or other information identifying the subjects of the report, except the subject of the report, shall not make public such identifying information unless the person is a State's attorney or other law enforcement official and the purpose is to initiate court action
  • 325 ILCS 5/11.4— Nothing in this Act affects existing policies or procedures concerning the status of court and criminal justice system records
  • 325 ILCS 5/11.5— Public awareness program
  • 325 ILCS 5/11.6— All final administrative decisions of the Department under this Act are subject to judicial review under the Administrative Review Law, as now or hereafter amended, and the rules adopted pursuant thereto
  • 325 ILCS 5/11.7— (a) The Director shall appoint the chairperson and members of a "State-wide Citizen's Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect" to consult with and advise the Director
  • 325 ILCS 5/11.8— Cross-reporting
  • 325 ILCS 5/11.9— Child Death Investigation Task Force; establishment