1. a. The department shall notify an individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver of
any appropriate meetings relating to the case permanency plan of a child in the care of the
individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver.
b. The department shall notify an individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver of
any meetings known to the department relating to the individualized education program of a
child in the care of the individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver.
c. The department shall notify an individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver of any
medical appointments required or scheduled in consultation with the department relating to
a child in the care of the individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver.
d.
(1)Thedepartmentshallnotifyanindividuallicenseeor
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1. a. The department shall notify an individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver of
any appropriate meetings relating to the case permanency plan of a child in the care of the
individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver.
b. The department shall notify an individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver of
any meetings known to the department relating to the individualized education program of a
child in the care of the individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver.
c. The department shall notify an individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver of any
medical appointments required or scheduled in consultation with the department relating to
a child in the care of the individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver.
d. (1) Thedepartmentshallnotifyanindividuallicenseeoranapprovedkinshipcaregiver,
and the parents or guardians of a child, if the department delegates the department’s right
to consent to emergency medical care and routine medical care on behalf of the child under
section 232.2, subsection 14, paragraph “c”, to the individual licensee or approved kinship
caregiver.
(2) The department shall notify the department of education, an individual licensee or
an approved kinship caregiver, and the parents or guardians of a child, if the department
delegates the department’s right to consent to participation in an individualized education
program on behalf of the child under section 232.2, subsection 14, paragraph “c”, to the
individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver.
2. The department or the department’s agent may share otherwise confidential
information about a child with an individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver being
considered as a possible placement for the child to the extent such disclosure is relevant to
the placement decision and the proper care of the child. The department or the department’s
agent may facilitate sharing the contact information of previous individual licensees and
approved kinship caregivers for a child with the next individual licensee or approved kinship
caregiver in an effort to support the continuity of care for a child.
3. Upon placement of a child with an individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver,
the department shall provide the individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver with
information that would allow the individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver to contact
the department or an agent of the department for assistance relating to child foster care.
4. Prior to disclosing an individual licensee’s or approved kinship caregiver’s private
address, work address, or contact information, the department shall evaluate possible safety
concerns to determine whether such information may be released without posing a risk to
the safety of the individual licensee, the approved kinship caregiver, the child, or any other
person.
5. The department shall notify an individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver
within a reasonable amount of time of any change in a law or rule that would have a
substantive impact on the individual licensee’s or approved kinship caregiver’s obligations
and responsibilities relating to child foster care.
6. a. Thedepartmentshallprovidewrittennoticetoanindividuallicensee,oranapproved
kinship caregiver, a minimum of ten days prior to the removal of a child from the care of the
individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver. Such notice shall include the reasons for
the child’s removal.
b. This subsection shall not apply if the health or safety of the child or another person
is threatened by the child’s presence in the child’s current placement, if the court orders the
removalofachildfromtheindividuallicenseeortheapprovedkinshipcaregiver,ifthechildis
absent from the placement without authorization, if the child is being moved to the home of a
biological parent or legal guardian, or if the individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver
is alleged to have committed child abuse or neglect.
7. a. An individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver shall provide written notice to
thedepartmentaminimumoftendayspriortoarequesttoremoveachildfromtheindividual
licensee’s care or the approved kinship caregiver’s care.
b. This subsection shall not apply to a situation where the health or safety of the child or
another person is threatened by the child’s presence in the child’s current placement.
8. At the conclusion of an investigation conducted by the department that may affect an
individual licensee’s ability, or an approved kinship caregiver’s ability, to provide child foster
care in the future, the department shall provide the individual licensee or approved kinship
caregiver with a written report that details the conclusions of the investigation.
9. a. The department shall require an individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver
to attempt, to the extent reasonably possible, to maintain a child’s culture and beliefs.
b. An individual licensee or an approved kinship caregiver shall be allowed to provide
child foster care, according to the individual licensee’s or the approved kinship caregiver’s
own culture and beliefs, if such child foster care does not actively discourage a child to
disregard the child’s own culture and beliefs and a biological parent whose parental rights
have not been terminated or a legal guardian for the child does not object to the practice or
activity that is consistent with the individual licensee’s or the approved kinship caregiver’s
own culture and beliefs.
10. a. The department or the department’s agent shall consider the needs and scheduling
demands of a child, the child’s parents, the child’s siblings, and the individual licensee or
approved kinship caregiver caring for the child when scheduling supervised or any other
visitation between the child and the child’s siblings, family members, or fictive kin.
b. The department shall not require an individual licensee or an approved kinship
caregiver to conduct, or to be present during, supervised visits scheduled pursuant to
paragraph “a”.
11. The department shall accept information from an individual licensee or approved
kinship caregiver relating to medical appointments, treatment needs, educational progress,
and educational services for a child placed with the individual licensee or approved kinship
caregiver. The department shall consider all such information when developing or modifying
a child’s case permanency plan, and in the coordination of care and decisions related to
services and care necessary for the child. The information the department receives from an
individual licensee or an approved kinship caregiver shall be reviewed and considered as
decisions about the child’s progress and needs are made.
12. The department shall maintain a process to allow each individual licensee and each
approved kinship caregiver to file a complaint with the department electronically for an
alleged violation relating to this section.
13. The department shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to implement this section.