2016 Delaware Code
Title 31 - Welfare
CHAPTER 38. CHILD PLACEMENT REVIEW ACT
§ 3815. Administrative review: Findings and recommendations report.

(a) Following the review, a report shall be prepared in accordance with the policy and procedures established by the Executive Committee and distributed in accordance with this statute. The report may address, but is not limited to, the following:

(1) The child's health, safety, and well-being;

(2) Efforts to maintain connections with siblings, birth parents, and other people who are significant to the child;

(3) Assessment of the child's current placement;

(4) Efforts to achieve permanency;

(5) Assessment of the services necessary to achieve permanency;

(6) Barriers and/or concerns that impede the achievement of permanency;

(b) The Child Placement Review Board shall submit a written findings and recommendations report of its administrative review to the placement agency and/or contract agency, to the child's parents and legal guardians, or to the child's guardian ad litem or CASA within 15 days of the review. If a case is referred to the Executive Committee for review before the report is distributed, then the report must be submitted within 15 days following the Executive Committee's review.

(c) Upon the receipt of a findings and recommendations report, a placement agency shall, within 10 working days, notify the Board in writing of the agency's agreement or disagreement with the Review Panel's recommendations.

(d) Upon the receipt of a findings and recommendations report, a person, other than a placement agency, who disagrees with the report may, within 10 working days, submit to the Board in writing a statement of no more than 2 pages in length stating the person's disagreement with the Review Panel's recommendations.

(e) The findings and recommendations report and any response to the report pursuant to subsections (c) and (d) of this section must be submitted by the Child Placement Review Board to the Family Court and must be made a part of the child's Family Court file. The Court shall review the report and consider the recommendations in it.

(f) The findings and recommendations report submitted to the Court pursuant to this subsection is a communication authorized by law and is not an ex parte communication with a judge or commissioner. The findings and recommendations report may be received as evidence by the Court and may be considered by the Court along with other evidence.

62 Del. Laws, c. 170, § 1; 64 Del. Laws, c. 47, § 1; 71 Del. Laws, c. 296, §§ 14, 15; 72 Del. Laws, c. 338, § 1; 79 Del. Laws, c. 284, § 1; 80 Del. Laws, c. 319, § 1.;