Section 41 Children inResidentialPlacement

• Library: Juvenile Law 2011

For those children who cannot, for whatever reason, be maintained in the home of a parent, relative, or community custodian, the juvenile court may place them elsewhere. One alternative custodial resource is the juvenile officer. Section 211.181.1(2)(d), .2(2)(d), and .3(2)(d), RSMo Supp. 2010. But this dispositional option is normally exercised only when a child must temporarily be held in a juvenile detention center pending more permanent placement. More commonly, children are committed to residential...