title: Legal issues affecting residential child care workers.
abstract: Most respondents felt that child care workers' legal concerns should be addressed by requiring (1) thorough, legally approved written procedures and guidelines for all day-to-day procedures and responsibilities; (2) legally approved comprehensive record-keeping systems; and (3) access to legal support and counsel. When child care workers follow legal guidelines and a facility's procedure manuals carefully, documenting their activities in an approved record-keeping system, they can expect to be in a positive situation in any legal contest and to have behavior measured from a legal standpoint by a standard described as what a "reasonable person" would be expected to do in a similar situation and circumstance.
mesh_terms: D000184:Acting Out; D002648:Child; D002651:Child Advocacy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012114:Residential Treatment