Kentucky Statutes 199.660 – Authorized activities of child-placing agencies — Registry of closed foster family homes — Restrictions on approvals of or placements in foster family homes — Collaboration to promote educational stability
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(1) A licensed child-placing agency may place children in any licensed child-caring facility, including institutions and group homes, or in foster family homes under its direct supervision, in a facility certified by an appropriate agency as operated primarily for educational or medical purposes, or may place children for adoption if specifically authorized by its license to do so. The child-placing agency shall provide careful supervision of all children under its care and of children placed by it in child-caring facilities or foster family homes, and its agents shall visit such facilities or foster family homes as often as may be necessary to promote the welfare of the children.
(2) (a) A licensed child-placing agency shall notify the department within fourteen (14) calendar days of the closure of a foster family home under its supervision for any reason, and shall state the reason for the closure.
(b) The department shall maintain a foster family home registry where this closure information, and closure information for all foster family homes closed by the cabinet, are stored.
(c) 1. A licensed child-placing agency shall not approve a foster family home, and shall not place a child into any foster family home, until the child- placing agency first requests information from the department to determine if the prospective foster family home is listed in the registry, if the foster family home has ever been closed, and the reason for closure.
2. A licensed child-placing agency shall not approve a foster family home, and shall not place a child into a foster family home, which has been closed for cause by any other licensed child-placing agency or by the cabinet unless the foster family home has been successfully and continually operating as a cabinet foster family home for one (1) year after it was closed for cause by a licensed child-placing agency.
3. A licensed child-placing agency shall not approve a foster family home, and shall not place a child into a foster family home, which is under corrective action by any other licensed child-placing agency or by the cabinet at time of the closure unless:
a. The foster family home provides all information on the corrective action to the licensed child-placing agency;
b. The licensed child-placing agency fully addresses the foster family home’s corrective action in the foster family’s home study narrative; and
c. The department reviews and approves the foster family’s home study.
(3) Licensed child-caring facilities and child-placing agencies shall collaborate with local school districts to promote educational stability for children under their care in
accordance with KRS § 199.802, and shall work to ensure that foster family homes under a child-placing agency’s supervision understand and actively support the educational needs of the children placed in their care through training, support, and supervision of the home by the child-placing agency.
Effective: July 15, 2020
History: Amended 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 64, sec. 4, effective July 15, 2020. — Amended
1972 Ky. Acts ch. 153, sec. 4. — Created 1950 Ky. Acts ch. 125, sec. 29.
(2) (a) A licensed child-placing agency shall notify the department within fourteen (14) calendar days of the closure of a foster family home under its supervision for any reason, and shall state the reason for the closure.
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 199.660
- Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Cabinet: means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. See Kentucky Statutes 199.011
- Child: means any person who has not reached his eighteenth birthday. See Kentucky Statutes 199.011
- Child-caring facility: means any institution or group home, including institutions and group homes that are publicly operated, providing residential care on a twenty-four (24) hour basis to children, not related by blood, adoption, or marriage to the person maintaining the facility, other than an institution or group home certified by an appropriate agency as operated primarily for educational or medical purposes, or a residential program operated or contracted by the Department of Juvenile Justice that maintains accreditation, or obtains accreditation within two (2) years of opening from a nationally recognized accrediting organization. See Kentucky Statutes 199.011
- Child-placing agency: means any agency licensed by the cabinet, which supervises the placement of children in foster family homes or child-caring facilities, or which places children for adoption. See Kentucky Statutes 199.011
- Department: means the Department for Community Based Services. See Kentucky Statutes 199.011
- Foster family home: means a private home in which children are placed for foster family care under supervision of the cabinet or of a licensed child-placing agency. See Kentucky Statutes 199.011
- State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
(b) The department shall maintain a foster family home registry where this closure information, and closure information for all foster family homes closed by the cabinet, are stored.
(c) 1. A licensed child-placing agency shall not approve a foster family home, and shall not place a child into any foster family home, until the child- placing agency first requests information from the department to determine if the prospective foster family home is listed in the registry, if the foster family home has ever been closed, and the reason for closure.
2. A licensed child-placing agency shall not approve a foster family home, and shall not place a child into a foster family home, which has been closed for cause by any other licensed child-placing agency or by the cabinet unless the foster family home has been successfully and continually operating as a cabinet foster family home for one (1) year after it was closed for cause by a licensed child-placing agency.
3. A licensed child-placing agency shall not approve a foster family home, and shall not place a child into a foster family home, which is under corrective action by any other licensed child-placing agency or by the cabinet at time of the closure unless:
a. The foster family home provides all information on the corrective action to the licensed child-placing agency;
b. The licensed child-placing agency fully addresses the foster family home’s corrective action in the foster family’s home study narrative; and
c. The department reviews and approves the foster family’s home study.
(3) Licensed child-caring facilities and child-placing agencies shall collaborate with local school districts to promote educational stability for children under their care in
accordance with KRS § 199.802, and shall work to ensure that foster family homes under a child-placing agency’s supervision understand and actively support the educational needs of the children placed in their care through training, support, and supervision of the home by the child-placing agency.
Effective: July 15, 2020
History: Amended 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 64, sec. 4, effective July 15, 2020. — Amended
1972 Ky. Acts ch. 153, sec. 4. — Created 1950 Ky. Acts ch. 125, sec. 29.