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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="5-524" title_number="5" title_name="Children" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Child Care; Foster Care">
  <text>The Administration shall provide child welfare services to a child and the child’s parent or guardian:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>to assist in preventing the necessity of placing the child outside of the child’s home;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>to reunite the child with the child’s parent or guardian after the child has been placed in foster care; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>if the child has been placed in foster care and cannot return to the child’s parent or guardian, to develop and implement an alternative permanent plan for the child.</text>
  </level>
</section>
