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Iowa Code § 237.22

Case permanency plan

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The agency responsible for the placement of the child shall create a case permanency plan. The plan shall include, but not be limited to:

1. Plans for carrying out the voluntary placement agreement or judicial determination pursuant to which the child entered care.

2. Time frames to meet the stated permanency goal and short-term objectives.

3. The type and appropriateness of the placement and services to be provided to the child.

4. The care and services that will be provided to the child, biological parents, and foster parents.

5. How the care and services will meet the needs of the child while in care and will facilitate the child’s return home or other permanent placement.

6. The efforts to place the child with a relative.

7. The rationale for an out-of-state placement, and the efforts to prevent such placement, if the child has been placed out of state.

84 Acts, ch 1279, §33; 88 Acts, ch 1233, §18, 19; 94 Acts, ch 1046, §7

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