N.J. Stat. tit. 18A, ch. 43A

in effect

N.J. Stat. § 18A:43A-1 Children's bureau

The board of education of any school district including any regional school district, by resolution, may provide for the establishment of a children's bureau for the district. L.1967, c.271.

N.J. Stat. § 18A:43A-2 Director

Every children's bureau so established shall be under the immediate supervision of a director to be appointed by the board of education of the district and who shall be a person qualified by training and experience to direct the work of such bureau. L.1967, c.271.

N.J. Stat. § 18A:43A-3 Staffing and assignment of personnel

The board of education shall provide for the operation of the bureau, for the payment of its expenses, for the staffing and assignment of personnel to the bureau including provision for the services of a social welfare caseworker or caseworkers and such other professional personnel as may be required by the bureau. Except as provided in section 18A:43A-8, the board may fix the compensation of the employees of the bureau including the director, assign duties and regulate the terms and conditions of all such employments. L.1967, c.271

N.J. Stat. § 18A:43A-4 Function

It shall be the function of any children's bureau so established, to coordinate the various student supervisory and counseling programs of the school district; and to cooperate with, and seek the cooperation of, state, county and municipal authorities and public or private social welfare and recreational agencies to assist in the solution of juvenile problems generally and in providing those services recognized as basic to the team approach in solving problems of individuals in their relations to others and to their environment. L.1967, c.271

N.J. Stat. § 18A:43A-5 Services that may be provided or administered.

18A:43A-5. The bureau may, subject to the approval of the board of education, provide for or administer any or all of the following services: (a) Take, keep and maintain a census of all children residing in the district pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.18A:11-2; (b) Supervise and maintain a school attendance service to carry out the provisions of article 3 of chapter 38 of this title, Compulsory Education; (c) Maintain a register and classification of children with disabilities pursuant to the provisions of chapter 46 of this title; (d) Supervise the issuance of employment certificates, age certificates and special permits pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1940, c.153 (C.34:2-21.1 et seq.), the law limiting and regulating child labor; (e) Establish and maintain group and individual child guidance and counseling programs; (f) Establish and operate speech and remedial reading clinics and such other clinics as will promote the educational development of the children of the district; (g) Arrange with the respective county and municipal authorities concerned with proper juvenile development and particularly with those concerned with juvenile delinquency for mutual cooperation and assistance including service of the children's bureau as a receiving center for juvenile delinquents; (h) Carry out, under guidance, the recommendations of mental health and diagnostic centers and clinics and of family psychiatrists and physicians; (i) Counsel with parent and child; (j) Cooperate in providing long- or short-term supervision of any child in connection with any of the services authorized by this section; (k) Assist in the promotion of the development of youth and their proper adjustment in society. amended 2010, c.50, s.12; 2017, c.131, s.33.

N.J. Stat. § 18A:43A-6 Cooperation by other services and civil authorities

In connection with any of the functions or services authorized by this chapter, the bureau shall cooperate with and receive the cooperation of, the medical inspector, nurse, psychological examiner or any approved clinic or agency providing psychological or psychiatric services to the district, the teachers, guidance counsellor, attendance officer, and all other personnel of the district as may be of assistance to the bureau in the performance of its authorized functions or services under this chapter. In addition the bureau is authorized to cooperate with and seek the cooperation of state, county and municipal authorities and public or private social welfare and recreational agencies. L.1967, c.271.

N.J. Stat. § 18A:43A-7 Cooperation by county and municipal government

The board of chosen freeholders of any county in which the board of education of any district therein has established a children's bureau pursuant to this chapter and the governing body of the municipality or municipalities of which such district is comprised is authorized and empowered to cooperate with and assist any such children's bureau in the performance of any of its functions or services authorized by this chapter and any such board of chosen freeholders or governing body may authorize the assignment of any county or municipal employee, including members of the municipal police department, subject to the approval of the director of such children's bureau, to serve with such children's bureau and under the direction of the director thereof. L.1967, c.271.

N.J. Stat. § 18A:43A-8 Employee to retain rights

Any such county or municipal employee, including members of the municipal police department, so assigned to serve with the children's bureau of a school district shall continue as an employee or member of, and be compensated by, the respective department or division from which he was assigned, and shall retain all his pension, tenure and other rights as an employee or member thereof. L.1967, c.271.

N.J. Stat. § 18A:43A-9 Extension of service to other districts; contract

Any board of education, which has established a children's bureau, and the board of education of any other school district may, pursuant to resolutions duly adopted, contract for the extension of the services of such bureau to such other district, upon such terms as may be determined upon between them and in any such case the bureau shall be operated for the benefit of both such school districts, pursuant to such contract. L.1967, c.271.

N.J. Stat. § 18A:43A-10 Empowers previously formed bureaus

Any children's bureau heretofore established in any school district and which has been and is performing any of the functions or services authorized by this chapter shall have all the powers conferred upon children's bureaus by this chapter in the same manner as though such bureau was established pursuant to this chapter. L.1967, c.271.

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