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The purpose of Child Welfare Services is to ensure for all maltreated
children in Erie County a permanent, legally assured family which protects
them from abuse or neglect.
The Agency is guided and constrained in its functions by state and
federal law and regulation. Through the Juvenile Act and the Child Protective Services
Law, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania recognized both the need to protect children
from abuse and neglect and the need to preserve the integrity of family life
whenever consistent with the goal of child protection.
Child Welfare Services conducts its mission with a
recognition of the magnitude of its duty to provide for the care and protection
of maltreated children in Erie County with a commitment to keep families
together whenever possible, and a willingness to move deliberately toward
alternative forms of permanence in cases where family preservation has been
ruled out as a viable option.
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