§ 8735

Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 35, Sec. 35. (SB 1013) Effective June 27, 2012.

The department shall adopt regulations requiring county adoption agencies and licensed adoption agencies to inform the agency responsible for the foster care placement when a relative caregiver or foster parent has been denied approval to adopt based on an inability of the relative caregiver or foster parent to provide for the mental and emotional health, safety, and security of the child and to recommend either that the relative caregiver or foster parent be provided with additional support and supervision or that the child be removed from the home of the relative caregiver or foster

parent.

Other sections in Chapter 2.5 - Adoptions by Relative Caregivers or Foster Parents

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