Iowa Code 235.2 – Powers and duties of department
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The department, in addition to all other powers and duties given the department by law, shall:
1. Administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 235.2
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Child: includes but shall not be limited to a stepchild, foster child, or legally adopted child and means a child actually or apparently under eighteen years of age, and a dependent person eighteen years of age or over who is unable to maintain the person's self and is likely to become a public charge. See Iowa Code 252A.2
- Child: means the same as defined in section 234. See Iowa Code 235.1
- Child welfare services: means social welfare services for the protection and care of children who are homeless, dependent or neglected, or in danger of becoming delinquent, or who have a mental illness or an intellectual disability or other developmental disability, including, when necessary, care and maintenance in a foster care facility. See Iowa Code 235.1
- Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 249L.2
- Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 235.1
- Director: means the director of health and human services. See Iowa Code 235.1
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
- United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
2. Join and cooperate with the government of the United States through its appropriate agency or instrumentality or with any other officer or agency of the federal government in planning, establishing, extending and strengthening public and private child welfare services within the state.
3. Investigate and obtain information to permit the director to determine the need for public child welfare services within the state and within the county departments.
4. Apply for and receive any funds which are or may be allotted to the state by the United States or any agency of the United States for the purpose of developing child welfare services.
5. Make reports and budget estimates to the governor and to the general assembly as required by law or as necessary and proper to obtain the appropriation of state funds for child welfare services within the state and for all the purposes of this chapter.
6. Cooperate with the county departments within the state, and all county boards of supervisors and other public or private agencies charged with the protection and care of children, in the development of child welfare services.
7. Aid in the enforcement of all laws of the state for the protection and care of children.
8. Cooperate with the juvenile courts of the state and subunits within the department regarding the management and control of state institutions and the inmates of the institutions.