Neglect may take many forms, including:

• Failure to provide medical care
• Physical neglect
• Failure to protect from abuse or harm
• Improper or inadequate supervision
• Abandonment

Medical Neglect

• Failure to seek, obtain or follow through with medical care, resulting in:
• Death
• Disfigurement or bodily harm
• Observable and material impairment to the growth, development or functioning of a child

Physical Neglect

• Negligent treatment of a child, including failure to provide or attempt to provide:
  • Food
  • Clothing
  • Shelter necessary to sustain life

Failure to Protect

• Knowingly allowing another person to abuse and/or neglect a child
• Failure to take appropriate measures to stop or prevent abuse and/or neglect
• Failure to prevent recurrence when able to do so and has, or should have had, knowledge of the abuse/neglect

Improper/Inadequate Supervision

• Placing the child in, or failing to remove the child from:
  • Dangerous situations
  • Situations that are beyond the child’s level of maturity, physical or mental abilities
• Results in harm or threatened harm to the child

Abandonment

• Leaving a child with an agency or other person without obtaining agreement that the entity/person will assume responsibility for the care of the child
• Failure to cooperate with another person or entity to provide for the care and custody of the child