In Re Lawrence M.

In these consolidated interlocutory appeals, we are asked to decide whether the circuit court has the authority under section 2 — 10 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 (705 ILCS 405/2 — 10(2) (West 1994)) to enter orders requiring the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to provide and pay for in-patient drug treatment services for mothers whose children were removed from their custody due to their mothers’ drug-related neglect of them. On nine separate occasions in 1993 and 1994, DCFS appealed from the entry of such orders by the circuit court of Cook County, juvenile division…