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is no reason for delaying this until the end of June. Placement is extended six months, effective April 12, 2000, and OCFS is directed to release the respondent to aftercare forthwith. [1] The Office of Children and Family Services is the successor agency to the Division for Youth. [2] Executive Law § 504 (4) (former § 511 [3]) provides: "The division shall determine the particular division facility or program in which a child placed with the division shall be cared for, based upon an evaluation of such child. The division shall also have authority to discharge or conditionally release children placed with it * * * when the interest of such children requires such action." [3] On the contrary, Family Court Act § 353.3 (6) specifically authorizes the court "at any time [to] conduct a hearing * * * concerning the need for continuing a placement." (Emphasis added.) Implicit in this statutory provision is the power to return a respondent to the community.
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