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Miss. Code Ann. § 43-1-63: Interdepartmental sharing of resources and services for preventing and detecting child abuse and neglect.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 43. Public Welfare
- Chapter 1. Department of Human Services and County Departments of Public Welfare
- Division of Family and Children’s Services
The Department of Human Services shall have the authority to use the services and resources of the State Department of Education and the State Department of Health and of all other appropriate state departments, agencies, institutions or political subdivisions as will aid in carrying out the purposes of this chapter. It shall be the duty of all such state departments, agencies and institutions to make available such services and resources to the department, including, but not necessarily limited to, such services and resources as may be required to perform appropriate criminal history record checks on prospective foster and relative child placements for the purpose of preventing and detecting abuse and neglect.
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