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20 ILCS 505/5c (2026)

Direct child welfare service employee license

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(20 ILCS 505/5c)
    Sec. 5c. Direct child welfare service employee license.
    (a) By January 1, 2000, the Department, in consultation with private child welfare agencies, shall develop and implement a direct child welfare service employee license. By January 1, 2001 all child protective investigators and supervisors and child welfare specialists and supervisors employed by the Department or its contractors shall be required to demonstrate sufficient knowledge and skills to obtain and maintain the license. The Direct Child Welfare Service Employee License Board of the Department shall have the authority to revoke or suspend the license of anyone who after a hearing is found to be guilty of misfeasance. The Department shall promulgate such rules as necessary to implement this Section.
    (b) If a direct child welfare service employee licensee is expected to transport a child or children with a motor vehicle in the course of performing the direct child welfare service employee licensee's duties, the Department must verify that the licensee meets the requirements set forth in Section 5.1 of the Child Care Act of 1969. The Department must make that verification as to each such licensee every 2 years. Upon the Department's request, the Secretary of State shall provide the Department with the information necessary to enable the Department to make the verifications required under this subsection. If the Department discovers that a direct child welfare service employee licensee has engaged in transporting a child or children with a motor vehicle without having a valid driver's license, the Department shall immediately revoke the individual's direct child welfare service employee license.
    (c) On or before January 1, 2000, and every year thereafter, the Department shall submit an annual report to the General Assembly on the implementation of this Section.
(Source: P.A. 103-22, eff. 8-8-23.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2020–2026 · leading case: Simms v. Direct Child Welfare Serv. Emp. License Bd. of the Illinois Dep't of Child & Fam. Servs., 2020 IL App (1st) 192076-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2020).
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Simms v. Direct Child Welfare Serv. Emp. License Bd. of the Illinois Dep't of Child & Fam. Servs., 2020 IL App (1st) 192076-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2020). · cites it 4× “See 20 ILCS 505/5c (West 2016); 89 Ill. Admin.”
Williams v. Haleighs Hope, Inc (C.D. Ill. 2025). “See 20 ILCS 505/5c(a) (“[A]ll child protective investigators and supervisors and child welfare specialists and supervisors employed by the Department or its contractors shall be required to demonstrate sufficient knowledge and skills to obtain and maintain the license.”
Paulinski v. Link, 2026 IL App (1st) 250326 (Ill. App. Ct. 2026). “” 20 ILCS 505/5c(a) (West 2024). Relevant here, the CWEL license is “solely for the purpose of employment with the Department or with a POS agency or a temporary services agency as a direct child welfare service employee.”
— 20 ILCS 505/5c(a) — 3 cases
Simms v. Direct Child Welfare Serv. Emp. License Bd. of the Illinois Dep't of Child & Fam. Servs., 2020 IL App (1st) 192076-U (Ill. App. Ct. 2020). “See 20 ILCS 505/5c (West 2016); 89 Ill. Admin.”
Williams v. Haleighs Hope, Inc (C.D. Ill. 2025). “See 20 ILCS 505/5c(a) (“[A]ll child protective investigators and supervisors and child welfare specialists and supervisors employed by the Department or its contractors shall be required to demonstrate sufficient knowledge and skills to obtain and maintain the license.”
Paulinski v. Link, 2026 IL App (1st) 250326 (Ill. App. Ct. 2026). “” 20 ILCS 505/5c(a) (West 2024). Relevant here, the CWEL license is “solely for the purpose of employment with the Department or with a POS agency or a temporary services agency as a direct child welfare service employee.”
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