The act defines the case plan as a written document that includes the following:

• A description of the type of living arrangement in which the child will be placed, including a discussion of:
  •  the safety and appropriateness of the placement; and 
  •  how DFPS plans to carry out the voluntary placement agreement entered into or judicial determination made with respect to the child pursuant to Social Security Act sec. 472(a)(1) (42 U.S.C. 672(a)(1)).
• A plan for assuring that the child receives safe and proper care and that services are provided to the parents, child, and foster parents to: 
  • improve the conditions in the parents’ home; 
  • facilitate return of the child to their own safe home or the permanent placement of the child; and 
  • address the needs of the child while in foster care, including a discussion of the appropriateness of the services that have been provided to the child under the plan.
• The health and education records of the child, including the most recent information available regarding: 
  • the names and addresses of the child’s health and educational providers; 
  • the child’s grade-level performance; 
  •  the child’s school record;  
  • a record of the child’s immunizations; 
  • the child’s known medical problems; 
  • the child’s medications; and 
  • any other relevant health and education information concerning the child determined to be appropriate by DFPS.
• For a child age 14 or over, a written description of the programs and services (where appropriate) available to assist which will help the child with transitioning from foster care to adulthood.
• When the permanency plan is adoption or permanent custody to another person, documentation of the steps taken to find an adoptive family or other permanent living arrangement for the child must highlight the DFPS’s efforts to place the child with:
  • an adoptive family; 
  • a fit and willing relative;
  • a permanent managing conservator; or
  • another planned permanent living arrangement

Documentation must also highlight DFPS’ efforts to finalize the adoption or legal guardianship. At a minimum, such documentation must include child-specific recruitment efforts (e.g., the use of state, regional, and national adoption exchanges, including electronic exchange systems to facilitate orderly and timely in-state and interstate placements).

• When the permanency plan is placement with a relative and receipt of permanency care assistance (PCA), a description of: 
  • the steps taken to determine that return to the home or adoption is not appropriate for the child; 
  • the reasons for any separation of siblings during placement; 
  • the reasons why a permanent placement with a fit and willing relative through a permanency care assistance arrangement is in the child’s best interests; 
  • the ways in which the child meets the eligibility requirements for permanency care assistance; 
  • the efforts made to discuss adoption by the child’s relative foster parent as a 
  • permanent alternative to legal guardianship and, in the case of a relative foster parent who has chosen not to pursue adoption, documentation of the reasons therefor; and 
  • the efforts made to discuss the permanency care assistance arrangements with the child’s parents, or the reasons why the efforts were not made. 
• A plan for ensuring the educational stability of the child while in foster care, including:
  •  assurances that each placement of the child regarding the appropriateness of the current educational setting and the proximity to the school in which the child is enrolled at the time of placement; and 

  • assurances made by DFPS regarding its coordination with appropriate local educational agencies (as defined by section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) to ensure that the child remains in the school in which the child is enrolled at the time of each placement; or, if this is not in the child’s best interests, assurances that DFPS and the local educational agencies provide immediate and appropriate enrollment of the child in a new school, with all of the educational records of the child provided to the new school. 

    42 U.S.C. §675(1)

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