Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 10, October 25, 2024
Section 24-7 - Agencies, Child-Caring Facilities, and Residential Group Care Homes Which Shall Be Invited and Encouraged to Attend Case ReviewsAgencies, child-caring facilities, and residential group care homes which are assigned to a particular local review board, are legally responsible for a child, and/or are responsible for the placement of the child, shall be notified of the date, time, and location of a review board hearing by the review board staff assigned to their area and shall be invited and encouraged to attend. The following shall be notified and encouraged to attend a child's case review:
A. Any Department of Social Services or other child placement agency worker (for child-caring facility or residential group care home workers, see B.) who is directly involved with a child's case shall be invited and encouraged to attend the child's case review. (See also Regulation Regulation 24-7 D. herein.) If a child, the child's siblings, and/or the biological/legal parents, or legal guardians have different workers, all workers shall be invited and encouraged to attend the case review. The worker in the county Department of Social Services holding legal custody of the child shall invite the other workers. In cases other than those of the Departments of Social Services, the child's worker shall invite the other workers. Supervisors shall automatically consider themselves to be invited to attend reviews involving their workers.B. If a child resides in a child-caring facility or residential group care home, a representative of that child-caring facility or residential group care home shall be invited and encouraged to attend the case review. Preferably the representative shall be the worker responsible for the planning for the child and his family.C. If a child is in the custody of a court and the court has assigned a worker to the child, that worker shall be invited and encouraged to attend the case review. The invitation shall be extended by the worker responsible for presenting the case to the review board. (See Regulation 24-23 herein.)D. Agency workers other than those listed above who are directly involved with a child or a child's parent(s) either for placement or treatment purposes shall be invited and encouraged to attend the case review. The invitations shall be extended by the worker responsible for presenting the case to the review board. (See Regulation Regulation 24-23 herein.) At the review board's discretion such workers may submit to the review board in lieu of attendance a written report such as, but not limited to, a prognosis of the parent's ability to make a home for the child or the progress toward adoptive placement. If a child has been legally free for adoption for more than six months and has not been placed adoptively, the Department of Social Services State Office adoption worker or the adoption worker of any other agency may be asked to attend the child's case review and if requested to attend, shall be encouraged to attend.Added by State Register Volume 10, Issue No. 2, eff February 28, 1986.