Illinois Administrative Code › Title 89 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Part 316 - ADMINISTRATIVE CASE REVIEWS AND COURT HEARINGS › Section 316.30 - Administrative Case Review System

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a)
			 The Department has an administrative case review system for all the children in
			 placement and their families. Administrative case reviews are conducted for
			 children living in foster family homes, relative homes, group homes, child care
			 institutions, youth emergency shelters, or detention, correctional, mental or
			 physical health related facilities. In addition, the Department may elect to
			 conduct administrative case reviews on other groups of children as fiscal and
			 staffing resources permit.
b) Case
			 reviews are conducted in order to:
1) assure
			 that parents and the children (if participating in the planning) are involved
			 in and collaborating in development of the plan and understand and discuss the
			 plan and know what is expected of them;
2) ensure siblings are being placed together
			 whenever possible; when sibling are placed apart, efforts continue to locate a
			 placement that will accept all of the children; contact and visitation between
			 siblings is encouraged and occurring in accordance with the Visitation and
			 Contact Plan; efforts are made to support contact between siblings in
			 substitute care with siblings who are not in substitute care (e.g., because of
			 adoption, legal guardianship, emancipation or adulthood);
3) review whether the Department's continuing
			 intervention is necessary;
4)
			 review whether services, including placement services, are necessary, relevant,
			 coordinated, and appropriate and address the health and safety needs of the
			 child;
5) identify services needed
			 but that are not being provided to the child, family or foster parents and the
			 reasons why they are not being provided;
6) review the disability status of a child to
			 determine the need for and/or appropriateness of specialized
			 services;
7) review the
			 appropriateness of the child's educational placement and the child's
			 educational progress and recommend changes to the caseworker;
8) review health information on the child and
			 family;
9) review any special
			 physical, psychological, educational, medical, emotional, or other needs of the
			 minor or his or her family that are relevant to a permanency or placement
			 determination;
10) review, for any
			 minor age 16 or over, programs or services that will enable the minor to
			 prepare for independent living;
11)
			 review whether the Department, the service providers, the family, the
			 substitute care provider, if any, and the child are complying with the service
			 plan and, if they are not complying, whether changes in the service plan or
			 goals are needed;
12) review
			 whether there is progress to resolve the child's and family's problems and
			 whether the progress is satisfactory and whether the child can safely return
			 home;
13) review whether the
			 projected month for achieving the permanency goal should be changed;
14) review the appropriateness of the
			 permanency goal and recommend changes in the goal (if appropriate);
15) review and finalize the service plan for
			 the next period, including an analysis of:
A)
			 the appropriateness of the services contained in the plan and whether those
			 services have been provided and, if not, why not;
B) whether reasonable efforts by the
			 Department, and reasonable progress by the family, have been made to achieve
			 the goal;
C) whether the plan and
			 goal have been achieved;
16) refer the case for a family meeting as
			 described in 89 Ill. Adm. Code
			 315.120
			 (Family Meetings) when one has not been conducted; and
17) report findings and make
			 recommendations.