2010 North Carolina Code
Chapter 131D Inspection and Licensing of Facilities.
Article 1A - Control over Child Placing and Child Care.
131D-10.1. Purpose.
131D‑10.1. Purpose.
It is the policy of this State to strengthen and preserve the family as a unit consistent with a high priority of protecting children's welfare. When a child requires care outside the family unit, it is the duty of the State to assure that the quality of substitute care is as close as possible to the care and nurturing that society expects of a family. However, the State recognizes there are instances when protecting a child's welfare outweighs reunifying the family unit, and as such, the care of residential care facilities providing high quality services that include meeting the children's educational needs as determined by the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Social Services can satisfy the standard of protecting a child's welfare, regardless of the child's age, particularly when the sibling groups can be kept intact.
The purpose of this Article is to assign the authority to protect the health, safety and well‑being of children separated from or being cared for away from their families. (1983, c. 637, s. 2; 2009‑408, s. 1.)
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