Ill. Admin. Code tit. 89, § 315.45 - The Need for a Permanent Home
a) The
Department recognizes that the best interest of children require that they have
safe, permanent, secure, and nurturing homes for healthy psychological and
physical development in order to mature to stable adulthood. Whenever it is
determined to be in the best interest of the child, the Department will make
reasonable efforts to preserve family life and to stabilize children's homes
and to assist in the solution of problems that are likely to result in the
abuse, neglect or exploitation of children.
b) When children must be removed from a
parent to reduce or prevent harm to the children and the other parent is not a
placement option, the Department will make reasonable efforts to reunite
families as quickly as is consistent with the children's best interests, safety
and well-being. When children and parents cannot be reunited because the
parents are unable or unwilling to care for the children and therefore cannot
achieve the minimum parenting standards, the Department will make reasonable
efforts to find other permanent homes for children in a timely fashion
consistent with the child's sense of time and need for physical safety and
emotional security.
c) When placing
a sibling group, priority shall be given to a placement, whether related or
unrelated, that can accept all of the members of the sibling group.
d) When placing a child who has siblings who
are in substitute care, or were adopted or placed in private guardianship from
the Department's care, priority shall be given first to placement with the
child's siblings who are still in substitute care or who are in an adoptive
placement or private guardianship.
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