When a foster home is identified for further actions related to child safety, risk, or quality of care, the analyst in the CPS HM program consults with the analyst’s manager (or designee) to discuss next steps. Next steps may include either (or both) of the following:

• A foster home placement review.
• One or more child placement reviews.

Foster Home Placement Review

A foster home placement review is a process for considering whether to stop allowing new placements of children into a certain foster home.

The following requirements apply when the CPS HM program conducts a foster home placement review:

• The HM analyst must complete the foster home placement review within five business days after the decision to conduct the review.
• The HM analyst provides the foster home placement review document to the CPS HM manager and director (or designee).
• The HM manager and director (or designee) must both review the documentation within 72 hours.
• If the HM director (or designee) recommends disallowing placements into the foster home, the HM director sends the information to the CPS director of placement.
• The CPS director of placement follows the policy in 4222.1 Disallowing Placements into a Foster Home.

Child Placement Review

A child placement review is a process for considering whether to move a child to a new placement.

The following requirements apply when the CPS HM program requests a child placement review:

• The HM analyst must send a child placement review email to the child’s primary caseworker, supervisor, and program director within 24 hours after staffing with the HM manager.
• The child placement review email must include the following information:
  • Case name (for the child’s case).
  • Case number (for the child’s case).
  • Name and other identifying information of the child who is currently placed in the foster home.
  • Foster home’s placement name.
  • Foster home’s resource number.
  • Information about identified concerns.
  • Request for the child’s primary caseworker, supervisor, and program director to hold an internal staffing (meeting) and to document the staffing.
  • Request for the child’s primary caseworker, supervisor, or program director to follow up with the HM analyst after completing the review and determining whether to move the child to a new placement.
• If, after the internal staffing, the child’s primary caseworker, supervisor, and program director decide to continue the child’s placement in that operation, and the HM developmental team determines there are continued risk factors, the HM analyst escalates the concerns to the HM director immediately.