29.The National Director of Youth Protection, appointed under section 5.1.1 of the Act respecting the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (chapter M-19.2), exercises, in addition to the responsibilities assigned to him under that section, the following responsibilities:
(a) ensuring the follow-up of care and service trajectories of children whose situation is taken in charge by a director and measuring the effects of the interventions;
(b) determining the policy directions and the clinical practice and management standards applicable to youth protection;
(c) exercising the controls required to ensure that youth protection interventions follow generally accepted standards and that they are adequate from a scientific, human and social standpoint;
(d) exercising leadership and supporting the action of directors in the exercise of their responsibilities; and
(e) coordinating, where he considers it necessary and to the extent he deems appropriate, any intervention involving the intervention of more than one director or of another competent authority.
A director of youth protection is required to comply with the directives given to him by the National Director of Youth Protection in the exercise of his responsibilities.
1977, c. 20, s. 29; 1989, c. 53, s. 12; 1995, c. 27, s. 15; 2022, c. 112022, c. 11, s. 161.