The FAD worker may place a foster home on inactive status under certain circumstances. Those circumstances include, but are not limited to, situations in which:

  •   there are no foster children in the home;

  •   the FAD worker documents in the home's record that the home is on inactive status and not accepting children for placement; or

  •   FAD and the foster parents reach a mutual agreement to place the home on inactive status.

The FAD worker may not place a home on inactive status if the home should be closed.

See 7626.3 Closing a Foster Home.

The only exception to this policy is if a home is placed on inactive status for the purpose of receiving Adoption Assistance or Permanency Care Assistance (PCA).