|
Chapter 8 of this Act regulates the emergency placement of a child and Chapter 9 the taking into care. Section 40 lays down the prerequisites for taking into care. It provides that children must be taken into care and substitute care must be provided for them by the municipal body responsible for social services if their health or development is seriously endangered by lack of care or other circumstances in which they are being brought up or they seriously endanger their health or development by abuse of intoxicants, by committing an illegal act other than a minor offence or by any other comparable behaviour. Taking a child into care and the provision of substitute care may, however, only be resorted to if the measures in the open care would not be suitable or possible for providing care in the interests of the child concerned or if the measures have proved to be insufficient. In addition, it is required that substitute care is estimated to be in the child's interests.
|