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Child supervision

The kind of supervision children need depends on their age, maturity, abilities, and surroundings. Adequate supervision is essential to keeping kids safe. An adult caregiver is accountable for the child's care, and inadequate supervision can be a type of neglect (neglectful supervision). Here are some of things you should think about when deciding how closely to supervise a child:

• How old, emotionally mature, and capable is your child?

• What is the layout and safety of the home, play area, or other setting?

• What are the hazards and risks in the neighborhood?

• What is your child's ability to respond to illness, fire, weather, or other types of emergencies?

• Does your child have a mental, physical, or medical disability?

• How many children are being left unsupervised?

• Do they know where you are?

• Can they contact you or other responsible adults?

• How long and how often is the child (or children) left alone?

Many states do not have laws that create a minimum age at which children may be left home without the supervision of a teenager or adult. The states that do have a minimum legal age to be home alone usually place it in the 10-14 years range—and many states provide that children age 0-6 may never be left home alone. Child Protective Services may investigate an incident or situation and determine that there was neglectful supervision of a child or children, and in some cases seek to remove the child or children from the custody of the parent or parents.



State Statutes for the State of Texas

CHAPTER 245 - RELEASE

under supervision or parole a child if: (a) Before releasing a child described by Subsection (b) under supervision, the department: to a child who will be released on supervision; and (2) release the child under supervision under Section 245.051; or The department shall ensure that each child it releases under supervision has:

CHAPTER 59 - PROGRESSIVE SANCTIONS MODEL

(2) after release from the program described by Subdivision (1), continue the child on probation supervision (2) after release from the program described by Subdivision (1), continue the child on probation supervision (b) On release of the child under supervision, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department parole programs as conditions of release under supervision; (b) On release of the child under supervision, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department parole programs

CHAPTER 244 - CARE AND TREATMENT OF CHILDREN

(1) permit the child liberty under supervision and on conditions the department believes conducive to through release from detention, release under supervision, and discharge. under supervision, as appropriate. (2) the child's conduct, regardless of whether the child was released under supervision under Section (c) If a child is released under supervision, a juvenile court adjudication that the child engaged in

CHAPTER 51 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

(B) assumed permanent supervision of the child under an inter-county transfer of probation supervision fees collected from the child or the child's parent while providing interim supervision for the child (B) assumed permanent supervision of the child under an inter-county transfer of probation supervision The probation officer providing supervision and other services for the child in the adjoining county shall provide the probation officer supervising the child in the county in which the child was placed

CHAPTER 43 - REGULATION OF CHILD-CARE AND CHILD-PLACING AGENCY ADMINISTRATORS

(2) "Child-care administrator" means a person who supervises and exercises direct administrative control over a child-care institution and who is responsible for its program and personnel, whether or not the (4) "Child-placing agency administrator" means a person who supervises and exercises direct control (4) have one year of full-time experience in management or supervision of child-care personnel and programs (4) have one year of full-time experience in management or supervision of child-placing personnel and

CHAPTER 142 - JUVENILE PROBATION DEPARTMENTS AND PERSONNEL

performed by a child who has been placed on informal adjustment or who has been adjudicated a delinquent child or a child in need of supervision and the labor was performed as a condition to probation ordered under

CHAPTER 663 - CHILD CARE SERVICES FOR STATE EMPLOYEES

(b) The commission by rule may establish methods to administer and supervise the child care program.

CHAPTER 261 - INDEPENDENT OMBUDSMAN

investigating, evaluating, and securing the rights of the children committed to the department, including a child released under supervision before final discharge. (3) any other residential facility in which a child adjudicated as having engaged in conduct indicating a need for supervision or delinquent conduct is placed by court order; and

Federal Statutes

§ 12623. Standards and best practices for use of non-invasive and non-permanent tracking devices

be construed to require that a parent or guardian use a tracking device to monitor the location of a child or adult under that parent or guardian’s supervision if the parent or guardian does not believe that the use of such device is necessary or in the interest of the child or adult under supervision.

§ 1169. Reporting of child abuse

(C) administrative officer, supervisor of child welfare and attendance, or truancy officer of any tribal

§ 20703. Victim-centered child human trafficking deterrence block grant program

(B) continuing judicial supervision of victims of child human trafficking, including case worker or child welfare supervision in collaboration with judicial officers, who have been identified by a law

§ 1314b. National Advisory Committee on the Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth in the United States

health providers, victim service providers, State or local courts with responsibility for conducting or supervising proceedings relating to child welfare or social services for children and their families, Federal, State health providers, victim service providers, State or local courts with responsibility for conducting or supervising proceedings relating to child welfare or social services for children and their families, Federal, State proceedings relating to child welfare or social services for children and their families, the gaming

§ 300ii. Definitions

family member, a foster parent, or another unpaid adult, who provides in-home monitoring, management, supervision , or treatment of a child or adult with a special need.

§ 10412. Specialized services for abused parents and their children

(C) to provide additional services and referrals to services for children, including child care, transportation , educational support, respite care, supervised visitation, or other necessary services.

§ 9858f. Criminal background checks

(B) whose activities involve the care or supervision of children for a child care provider or unsupervised access to children who are cared for or supervised by a child care provider.

§ 679. Collection of data relating to adoption and foster care

guardianship, the age of the child at the time of the prior adoption or guardianship, the age at which the child subsequently entered foster care under supervision of the State, the type of agency involved in making