Chapter 325 — CHILDREN

(325 ILCS 5/3) (from Ch. 23, par. 2053) Sec. 3. As used in this Act unless the context otherwise requires: "Adult resident" means any person between 18 and 22 years of age who resides in any facility licensed by the Department under the Child Care Act of 1969. For purposes of thi…

(325 ILCS 5/4) Sec. 4. Persons required to report; privileged communications; transmitting false report. (a) The following persons are required to immediately report to the Department when they have reasonable cause to believe that a child known to them in their professional or o…

(325 ILCS 5/4.02) (from Ch. 23, par. 2054.02) Sec. 4.02. Any physician who willfully fails to report suspected child abuse or neglect as required by this Act shall be referred to the Illinois State Medical Disciplinary Board for action in accordance with paragraph 22 of Section 2…

(325 ILCS 5/4.1) (from Ch. 23, par. 2054.1) Sec. 4.1. Any person required to report under this Act who has reasonable cause to suspect that a child has died as a result of abuse or neglect shall also immediately report the person's suspicion to the appropriate medical examiner or…

(325 ILCS 5/4.2) Sec. 4.2. Departmental report on death or serious life-threatening injury of child. (a) In the case of the death or serious life-threatening injury of a child whose care and custody or custody and guardianship has been transferred to the Department, or in the cas…

(325 ILCS 5/4.3) Sec. 4.3. DCFS duty to report. The Department shall report the disappearance of any child under its custody or guardianship to the local law enforcement agency working in cooperation with the State Missing Persons Clearinghouse. (Source: P.A. 97-938, eff. 1-1-13.…

(325 ILCS 5/4.4) Sec. 4.4. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 103-22, eff. 8-8-23. Repealed by P.A. 103-941, eff. 8-9-24.)

(325 ILCS 5/4.4a) Sec. 4.4a. Department of Children and Family Services duty to report to Department of Human Services' Office of Inspector General. Whenever the Department receives, by means of its statewide toll-free telephone number established under Section 7.6 for the purpos…

(325 ILCS 5/4.4b) Sec. 4.4b. Department of Children and Family Services' duty to report to a Department of Defense Family Advocacy Program. Whenever the Department receives, by means of its statewide toll-free telephone number established under Section 7.6 for the purpose of repo…

(325 ILCS 5/4.4c) Sec. 4.4c. Duty to notify the Directors of Public Health and Healthcare and Family Services. Whenever the Department receives, by means of its statewide toll-free telephone number established under Section 7.6 for the purpose of reporting suspected child abuse o…

(325 ILCS 5/4.5) Sec. 4.5. Electronic and information technology workers; reporting child sexual abuse material. (a) In this Section: "Child sexual abuse material" means child sexual abuse material as described in Section 11-20.1 of the Criminal Code of 2012. "Electronic and info…

(325 ILCS 5/5) (from Ch. 23, par. 2055) Sec. 5. An officer of a local law enforcement agency, designated employee of the Department, or a physician treating a child may take or retain temporary protective custody of the child without the consent of the person responsible for the …

(325 ILCS 5/6) (from Ch. 23, par. 2056) Sec. 6. Any person required to investigate cases of suspected child abuse or neglect may take or cause to be taken, at Department expense, color photographs and x-rays of the child who is the subject of a report, and color photographs of th…

(325 ILCS 5/7) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057) Sec. 7. Time and manner of making reports. All reports of suspected child abuse or neglect made under this Act shall be made immediately by telephone to the central register established under Section 7.7 on the single, State-wide, toll-free…

(325 ILCS 5/7.01) Sec. 7.01. Reports made by mandated reporters that require a child welfare services referral. (a) When a report is made by a mandated reporter to the statewide toll-free telephone number established under Section 7.6 of this Act and there is a prior indicated re…

(325 ILCS 5/7.1) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.1) Sec. 7.1. (a) To the fullest extent feasible, the Department shall cooperate with and shall seek the cooperation and involvement of all appropriate public and private agencies, including health, education, social service and law enforce…

(325 ILCS 5/7.10) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.10) Sec. 7.10. Upon the receipt of each oral report made under this Act, the Child Protective Service Unit shall immediately transmit a copy thereof to the state central register of child abuse and neglect. A preliminary report from a Chi…

(325 ILCS 5/7.12) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.12) Sec. 7.12. The Child Protective Service Unit shall determine, within 60 days, whether the report is "indicated" or "unfounded" and report it forthwith to the central register; where it is not possible to initiate or complete an invest…

(325 ILCS 5/7.13) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.13) Sec. 7.13. The reports made under this Act may contain such additional information in the furtherance of the purposes of this Act as the Department, by rule, may require. (Source: P.A. 81-1077.)

(325 ILCS 5/7.14) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.14) Sec. 7.14. All reports in the central register shall be classified in one of three categories: "indicated", "unfounded" or "undetermined", as the case may be. Prior to classifying the report, the Department shall determine whether the…

(325 ILCS 5/7.15) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.15) Sec. 7.15. The central register may contain such other information which the Department determines to be in furtherance of the purposes of this Act. Pursuant to the provisions of Sections 7.14 and 7.16, the Department may amend or rem…

(325 ILCS 5/7.16) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.16) Sec. 7.16. For any investigation or appeal initiated on or after, or pending on July 1, 1998, the following time frames shall apply. Within 60 days after the notification of the completion of the Child Protective Service Unit investig…

(325 ILCS 5/7.17) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.17) Sec. 7.17. To the fullest extent possible, written notice of any amendment, expunction, or removal of any record made under this Act shall be served upon each subject of such report and the appropriate Child Protective Service Unit. U…

(325 ILCS 5/7.18) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.18) Sec. 7.18. Pursuant to Sections 7.15 and 7.16 and for good cause shown, the Child Protective Service Unit may amend any report previously sent to the State-wide center. Unless otherwise prescribed by this Act, the content, form, manne…

(325 ILCS 5/7.19) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.19) Sec. 7.19. Upon request, a subject of a report shall be entitled to receive a copy of all information contained in the central register pertaining to the subject's case. However, the Department may prohibit the release of data that wo…

(325 ILCS 5/7.2) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.2) Sec. 7.2. The Department shall establish a Child Protective Service Unit within each geographic region as designated by the Director of the Department. The Child Protective Service Unit shall perform those functions assigned by this Act…

(325 ILCS 5/7.20) Sec. 7.20. Inter-agency agreements for information. The Department shall enter into an inter-agency agreement with the Secretary of State to establish a procedure by which employees of the Department may have immediate access to driver's license records maintain…

(325 ILCS 5/7.21) Sec. 7.21. Multidisciplinary Review Committee. (a) The Department may establish multidisciplinary review committees in each region of the State to assure that mandated reporters have the ability to have a review conducted on any situation where a child abuse or …

(325 ILCS 5/7.22) Sec. 7.22. Reviews of unfounded reports. (a) Whenever the Department determines that a reported incident of child abuse or neglect will be "unfounded", the Department shall forward a copy of the report and written notice of the Department's intent to classify th…

(325 ILCS 5/7.22a) Sec. 7.22a. Reports subject to review. (a) Unfounded reports. Prior to classifying a report under Section 7.14, if the Department intends to classify the report as unfounded, the Department must first determine whether the report is subject to review in accorda…

(325 ILCS 5/7.3) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.3) Sec. 7.3. (a) The Department shall be the sole agency responsible for receiving and investigating reports of child abuse or neglect made under this Act, including reports of adult resident abuse or neglect as defined in this Act, except…

(325 ILCS 5/7.3a) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.3a) Sec. 7.3a. The Director of the Department shall appoint a Perinatal Coordinator who shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches with a specialty certification in pediatric care. Such coordinator, or other de…

(325 ILCS 5/7.3b) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.3b) Sec. 7.3b. All persons required to report under Section 4 may refer to the Department of Human Services any pregnant person in this State who has a substance use disorder as defined in the Substance Use Disorder Act. The Department of…

(325 ILCS 5/7.3c) Sec. 7.3c. Substance abuse services for parents with children. The Department of Human Services and the Department of Children and Family Services shall develop a community based system of integrated child welfare and substance abuse services for the purpose of …

(325 ILCS 5/7.4) Sec. 7.4. (a) The Department shall be capable of receiving reports of suspected child abuse or neglect 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Whenever the Department receives a report alleging that a child is a truant as defined in Section 26-2a of the School Code, as no…

(325 ILCS 5/7.4a) Sec. 7.4a. Domestic violence co-location program. (a) As used in this Section: "Domestic violence co-location program" means a program, administered in partnership with a co-location program management entity, where domestic violence advocates who are trained in…

(325 ILCS 5/7.5) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.5) Sec. 7.5. If the Child Protective Service Unit is denied reasonable access to a child by the parents or other persons and it deems that the health, safety, and best interests of the child so require, it shall request the intervention of…

(325 ILCS 5/7.6) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.6) Sec. 7.6. There shall be a single State-wide, toll-free telephone number established and maintained by the Department which all persons, whether or not mandated by law, may use to report suspected child abuse or neglect at any hour of t…

(325 ILCS 5/7.7) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.7) Sec. 7.7. There shall be a central register of all cases of suspected child abuse or neglect reported and maintained by the Department under this Act. Through the recording of initial, preliminary, and final reports, the central registe…

(325 ILCS 5/7.8) Sec. 7.8. Upon receiving an oral or written report of suspected child abuse or neglect, the Department shall immediately notify, either orally or electronically, the Child Protective Service Unit of a previous report concerning a subject of the present report or …

(325 ILCS 5/7.9) (from Ch. 23, par. 2057.9) Sec. 7.9. The Department shall prepare, print, and distribute initial, preliminary, and final reporting forms to each Child Protective Service Unit. Initial written reports from the reporting source shall contain the following informati…

(325 ILCS 5/8.1) (from Ch. 23, par. 2058.1) Sec. 8.1. If the Child Protective Service Unit determines after investigating a report that there is no credible evidence that a child is abused or neglected, it shall deem the report to be an unfounded report. However, if it appears th…

(325 ILCS 5/8.2) (from Ch. 23, par. 2058.2) Sec. 8.2. If the Child Protective Service Unit determines, following an investigation made pursuant to Section 7.4 of this Act, that there is credible evidence that the child is abused or neglected, the Department shall assess the famil…

(325 ILCS 5/8.2a) Sec. 8.2a. Developmental and social-emotional screening; indicated finding of abuse or neglect. The Department shall conduct a developmental and social-emotional screening within 45 days after the Department is granted temporary custody of a child. When a child …

(325 ILCS 5/8.3) (from Ch. 23, par. 2058.3) Sec. 8.3. The Department shall assist a Circuit Court during all stages of the court proceeding in accordance with the purposes of this Act and the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 by providing full, complete, and accurate information to the …

(325 ILCS 5/8.4) (from Ch. 23, par. 2058.4) Sec. 8.4. The Department shall provide or arrange for and monitor, as authorized by this Act, rehabilitative services for children and their families on a voluntary basis or under a final or intermediate order of the Court. (Source: P.A…

(325 ILCS 5/8.5) (from Ch. 23, par. 2058.5) Sec. 8.5. The Child Protective Service Unit shall maintain a local child abuse and neglect index of all cases reported under this Act which will enable it to determine the location of case records and to monitor the timely and proper in…

(325 ILCS 5/8.6) Sec. 8.6. Reports to a child's school. Within 10 days after completing an investigation of alleged physical or sexual abuse under this Act, if the report is indicated, the Child Protective Service Unit shall send a copy of its final finding report to the school t…

(325 ILCS 5/9) (from Ch. 23, par. 2059) Sec. 9. Any person, institution or agency, under this Act, participating in good faith in the making of a report or referral, or in the investigation of such a report or referral or in the taking of photographs and x-rays or in the retainin…

(325 ILCS 5/9.1) (from Ch. 23, par. 2059.1) Sec. 9.1. Employer discrimination. No employer shall discharge, demote or suspend, or threaten to discharge, demote or suspend, or in any manner discriminate against any employee who makes any good faith oral or written report of suspec…