Section 331.10 Purpose
Rules 331, Unusual Incidents, require Department staff and purchase of service providers to report unusual incidents as defined by those rules.
The purposes of unusual incident reporting are to:
1) communicate quickly about critical incidents or circumstances that present risks to children and youth, staff and others;
2) alert others of events and/or actions that may be required; and
3) track incidents for trend analysis and to determine whether modifications are needed to improve the quality of services.
Rules 331 also require the Department to maintain a system of tracking and monitoring unusual incident reports. These Procedures describe the processing of reports in the Unusual Incident Reporting (UIR) System.
