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North Carolina Division of Social Services Family Services Manual 3 Volume I: Children's Services Chapter II - Child Welfare Services Funding Strategies Child Protective Services Allocation 10 -16 -91 This means that funds appropriated /allocated by these Sessions of the General Assembly cannot be used to supplant any SSBG funds or county appropriations budgeted for child protective services prior to July Y -, 1991. Any CPS position established on or after July 1, 1991 can be funded in whole or in part with this new money. 3. Allowable Costs: Direct services staff carrying out CPS investigations or direct services staff carrying out protective or preventive services to confirmed cases of abuse, neglect or dependency. If a county department has adequate child protective services staff, funds can be used to purchase or provide treatment and supportive services to children and their families in confirmed cases of abuse, neglect or dependency. If a county department does not have adequate child protective services staff and the appropriated funding is not sufficient to add direct services staff, funds can be used toward plans approved by the State Division of Social Services. Indirect costs are allowable. In order to demonstrate that a county department has adequate protective services staff, the county director of social services must submit as documentation to the Division's Chief of Family Services one of the following: a relevant staffing study recently carried out by regional office personnel, a recent resource management study carried out by a public or private agency /corporation, or documentation that the county is staffed in CPS at the level recommended for the use of this allocation. Additionally, the information submitted must include a sign -off by the Children's Programs Representative to the effect that there is child protective services staff at the recommended level to carry out investigations and to provide protective or preventive.services in confirmed cases. If a county department of social services: a) is unable to demonstrate that it has adequate staff and the appropriated funding is insufficient to add a staff position; or, b) is able to add a staff position(s), but not to the level of documented need and a portion of the appropriated funds remain unobligated, the director of social services may submit a plan to the State Division of Social Services Chief of Family Services for approval to use these funds for other child protective services staff - related costs. In other words, the county department cannot use any portion of its allocation to purchase or provide treatment and other support services to children and their families in confirmed cases if child protective services staffing remains inadequate. Proposed plans submitted for Division approval must include a sign -off by the Children's Programs Representative.