DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The appellant mother was herself a ward of the petitioner Administration for Children's Services (hereinafter ACS). She moved to dismiss the petitions to terminate her parental rights to the subject children who were placed by ACS with one of its contracting agencies, the petitioner Little Flower Children's Services. The Family Court denied the motion, rejecting her claim that by commencing a proceeding to terminate her parental rights, ACS violated, inter alia, its constitutional, statutory, and fiduciary obligations to act in her best interests. We agree with the Family Court.
Contrary to the mother's contention, ACS is not precluded from prosecuting a permanent neglect proceeding against a parent who was in foster care under its jurisdiction ( see Social Services Law §§ 384-b, 397[b], [c], 398[2][a], [b]; Matter of Tyriek W., 85 N.Y.2d 774; Matter of Lawrence Children, 1 Misc. 3d 156). Nothing in the Family Court Act or the Social Services Law lessens, increases, or otherwise changes the responsibilities of either ACS or its contract agencies when faced with caring for the offspring of a foster child.
RITTER, J.P., H. MILLER, GOLDSTEIN and MASTRO, JJ., concur.