Texas Administrative Code
Title 26 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Part 1 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
Chapter 749 - MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES
Subchapter M - FOSTER HOMES: SCREENINGS AND VERIFICATIONS
Division 3 - VERIFICATION OF FOSTER HOME
Section 749.2487 - What are the requirements for an agreement that I have with a foster home that I verify?
Universal Citation: 26 TX Admin Code § 749.2487
Current through Reg. 50, No. 13; March 28, 2025
(a) You must sign a written agreement with each agency foster home at the time that you verify the home. You and the foster home must each have copies of the signed agreement. You must file a copy of the signed agreement in the agency home record.
(b) The agreement must specify the following:
(1) The foster
parents' responsibility for complying with rules of this chapter;
(2) The financial agreement between you and
the foster home;
(3) The foster
home agrees not to admit a non-relative child for 24-hour care from any source
other than you;
(4) You have the
right to remove the child from the home at your discretion;
(5) You must consent to any discharge of a
child from the home;
(6) Visits by
the child's parents or relatives must be arranged through you;
(7) You are responsible for regular
supervision of the foster home;
(8)
The foster parents' commitment to comply with your policies regarding child
care, discipline, supervision of children, and children's visits or trips away
from the foster home; and
(9) The
foster parents' commitment to comply with your policies about foster parents'
reports to you regarding foster children and events or occurrences impacting
the provision of foster care.
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