2022 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 620 - Dependency, neglect, and abuse 620.320 Duties of State Citizen Foster Care Review Board. (Effective until January 1, 2023).
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620.320 Duties of State Citizen Foster Care Review Board.
January 1, 2023)
(Effective until
The duties of the State Citizen Foster Care Review Board shall be to:
(1) Establish, approve, and provide training programs for local citizen foster care
review board members;
(2) Review and coordinate the activities of local citizen foster care review boards;
(3) Establish reporting procedures to be followed by the local citizen foster care review
boards and publish an annual written report compiling data reported by local foster
care review boards which shall include statistics relating, at a minimum, to the
following:
(a) Barriers to permanency identified in reviews;
(b) The number of children moved more than three (3) times within a six (6)
month period;
(c) The average length of time in care;
(d) Local solutions reported to meet identified barriers; and
(e) The total number and frequency of reviews;
(4) Publish an annual written report on the effectiveness of such local citizen foster care
review boards; and
(5) Evaluate and make annual recommendations to the Supreme Court, Governor, and
the Child Welfare Oversight and Advisory Committee established in KRS 6.943
regarding:
(a) Laws of the Commonwealth;
(b) Practices, policies, and procedures within the Commonwealth affecting
permanence for children in out-of-home placement and the investigation of
allegations of abuse and neglect;
(c) The findings of the local citizen foster care review board community forums
conducted pursuant to KRS 620.270; and
(d) The effectiveness or lack thereof and reasons therefor of local citizen foster
care review of children in the custody of the cabinet in bringing about
permanence for the Commonwealth's children.
Effective: June 27, 2019
History: Amended 2019 Ky. Acts ch. 132, sec. 3, effective June 27, 2019. -- Amended
2018 Ky. Acts ch. 159, sec. 56, effective July 14, 2018. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts
ch. 278, sec. 15, effective July 15, 1998; and ch. 398, sec. 11, effective July 15,
1998. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 301, sec. 15, effective July 15, 1996. -Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 412, sec. 4, effective July 14, 1992. -- Created 1986 Ky.
Acts ch. 423, sec. 93, effective July 1, 1987.
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