DYFS - Monmouth County

Removing a Child From School
• In physical abuse situations when the parent is assessed to be a
threat to the physical safety of the child, or in domestic violence
situations physical injury to the non abusive parent and the police
are unable or unwilling to escort the caseworker to the home.
• In emotional and or sex abuse situations, when confrontation
between the parent and the child is likely to cause severe
irreversible emotional or psychological harm.
• When the strategy of removing the child from the home is likely to
make the child vulnerable to the parent fleeing with the child or o
holding the child hostage when law enforcement is either unable or
unwilling to escort the caseworker and child into the home.
• Only a DYFS representative, police officer, or probation officer can
remove a child from school in accordance with the building
principal. This includes authorization for not putting a child on the
bus to go home.
• DYFS cannot transport children to and from school without having
legal custody of that child.