Action | Establish Resource, Foster and Adoptive Family Home Standards for Local Departments of Social Services |
Stage | Proposed |
Comment Period | Ended on 10/3/2008 |
22VAC40-211-70 D This requires access to a working telephone. Should not there be a telephone in the home (as opposed to next door or down the stairs)? And will a cell phone meet this requirement? If a cell phone is allowed, what happens when the cell phone is taken away from the home with its owner, while a caretaker at home with the child has no phone, or when the cell phone no longer has a charge or drops and breaks, etc?
22VAC40-211-80 F If a provider regularly transports the child...The requirement for a valid driver's license and liability insurance should exist no matter how often a provider transports a child. Indeed the same requirement should be for any substitute care provider who transpsorts the child including teenaged members of the household, relatives, neighbors, friends.
22VAC40-211-100 B5 Requires reviewing confidentiality and corporal punishment requirements and completing new agreements seems redundant. Why not just complete new agreements. In the process of completing them, a review of the provisions must be read and signed.