Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
Chapter 9. ABUSE OF CHILDREN

Subchapter I. Reports and Investigations of Abuse and Neglect

§ 901. Purpose. - The child welfare policy of this State shall serve to...

§ 902. Definitions. - As used in this chapter: (1) “Abuse” or “abused child”...

§ 903. Reports required. - (a) Any person, agency, organization or entity who knows or...

§ 904. Nature and content of report; to whom made. - (a) Any report of child abuse or neglect required to...

§ 905. Telephone reports, Child Protection Registry and information. - (a) The Department shall establish and maintain a 24-hour statewide...

§ 906. State response to reports of abuse or neglect. - (a) The State's child protection system shall seek to promote...

§ 907. Temporary emergency protective custody. - (a) A police officer, nurse practitioner, or a physician who...

§ 907A. Safe Arms for Babies. - (a) The General Assembly finds and declares all of the...

§ 908. Immunity from liability, and special reimbursement to safe havens for expenses related to certain babies [Effective until Jan. 8, 2023]. - (a) Any person participating in good faith in the making...

§ 908. Immunity from liability, and special reimbursement to safe havens for expenses related to certain babies [Effective Jan. 8, 2023]. - (a) Any person, including an agency, organization, or entity, participating...

§ 909. Privileged communication not recognized; judicial proceedings; disclosure of information [Effective until Jan. 8, 2023]. - (a) No legally recognized privilege, except that between attorney and...

§ 909. Privileged communication not recognized [Effective Jan. 8, 2023]. - (a) No legally recognized privilege, except that between attorney and...

§ 910. Court orders to compel. - (a) Whenever an investigation has been opened with the Department...

§ 911. Training and information. - (a) The Department shall, on a continuing basis, undertake and...

§ 912. Confidentiality; disclosure of records [Effective Jan. 8, 2023]. - (a) To protect the privacy of the family and the...

§ 913. Child under treatment by spiritual means not neglected. - No child who in good faith is under treatment solely...

§ 914. Penalty for violation. - (a) Whoever violates § 903 of this title shall be...

Subchapter II. Child Protection Registry

§ 921. Child Protection Registry; purpose. - The Department shall maintain a Child Protection Registry which contains...

§ 922. Entry on the Child Protection Registry. - The Child Protection Registry must indicate “substantiated for abuse” or...

§ 923. Child Protection Levels. - (a) A person who has been substantiated for abuse or...

§ 924. Notice of Intent to Substantiate; process. - (a) In response to a report where abuse or neglect...

§ 925. Petition for substantiation. - (a) If a person responds to the Department and requests...

§ 925A. Grounds for substantiation. - (a) Unless otherwise provided in this subchapter, no person shall...

§ 926. Finding of abuse or neglect in child welfare proceeding; binding effect. - In every child welfare proceeding brought by the Department or...

§ 927. Automatic stay of substantiation proceedings. - (a) Proceedings under §§ 925 and 925A of this title,...

§ 928. Persons entered on the Registry between August 1, 1994, and February 1, 2003. - (a) The Department shall review each case substantiated for abuse...

§ 929. Removal of name from the Child Protection Registry. - (a) A person who has been entered on the Child...

Subchapter III. Child Protection Accountability Commission

§ 931. The Child Protection Accountability Commission. - (a) The Delaware Child Protection Accountability Commission is hereby established....

§ 932. Investigation and review of the death or near death of an abused or neglected child. - (a) The Attorney General, the Department of Services for Children,...

§ 933. Power and authority of investigations and reviews. - (a) In connection with any investigation and review conducted under...

§ 934. Confidentiality of records related to investigations and reviews. - (a) The records of the Commission, committee, panel, and its...

§ 935. Immunity from suit related to investigations and reviews. - (a) Members of the Commission and their agents or employees,...