Purpose of Article

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Social Services
  4. Programs and Protection for Children and Youth
  5. Children and Youth Services
  6. Purpose of Article

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The purpose of this article is to promote, safeguard, and protect the well-being and general welfare of children and youth of this state through a comprehensive and coordinated program of public child welfare and youth services, providing for:

  1. Social services and facilities for children and youths who require care, control, protection, treatment, or rehabilitation and for the parents of such children;
  2. Setting of standards for social services and facilities for children and youths;
  3. Cooperation with public and voluntary agencies, organizations, and citizen groups in the development and coordination of programs and activities in behalf of children and youth; and
  4. Promotion of community conditions and resources that help parents to discharge their responsibilities for the care, development, and well-being of their children.

    It is the further purpose of this article to provide for a qualified group of citizens and leading professionals who will identify and study the problems of youth, recommend and effect possible solutions, and work actively for state and local action to prevent children and youths from becoming inmates of our prisons, patients in our mental hospitals, and persons dependent upon public assistance programs.

(Ga. L. 1963, p. 81, § 2.)

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Fire safety standards for day care centers.

- Board of Human Resources had lawful authority to adopt the 1973 Life Safety Code (National Fire Protection Association standard 101), a comprehensive set of standards that deals with preventing and controlling losses from fire, as part of the rules and regulations for day care centers, and the Department of Human Resources has lawful authority to enforce compliance with code standards. 1976 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U76-6.

Contracting with private institution for provision of day care.

- Department may contract with a private institution for the purpose of providing day care and other specialized services for mentally retarded children, assign responsibility for the supervision of this contract to the Division for Children and Youth (now Department of Children and Youth Services) and use funds allocated from the Governor's Emergency Fund for these purposes, provided that the contracts do not create a continuing obligation for the state. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-96.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Parent's obligation to support unmarried minor child who refuses to live with parent, 98 A.L.R.3d 334.


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