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1 Background Checks for Prospective Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Caregivers 1 (2019)

handle is hein.scsl/bkgcp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Background Checks for Prospective Foster, Adoptive, ndKinship Caregivers All States, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico have statutes or regulations requiring background investigations of prospective foster and adoptive parents and kinship caregivers. Many of these statutes also require background checks on any adult residing in the household of prospective foster and adoptive parents. State statutes requiring background checks are supported by Federal law in title IV-E of the Social Security Act.1 Under Federal law, States are required to include in their title IV-E State plan provisions for completing all of the following: - Criminal records checks, including fingerprint-based checks of national crime information databases, for any prospective foster or adoptive parent prior to approving the placement of a child, regardless of whether foster care maintenance payments or adoption assistance payments are to be made on behalf of the child - Checks of any child abuse and neglect registry maintained by the State for information on any prospective foster or adoptive parent and on any other adult living in the home - Checks of the child abuse and neglect registry of any other State in which a prospective parent or other adult has resided in the preceding 5 years - Criminal records checks, including fingerprint-based checks of national crime information databases, on any relative guardian and any other adult living in the home of a relative guardian before the relative guardian may receive kinship guardianship assistance payments on behalf of the child 1 See 42 U.S.C. 671(a)(20) (2018). Child Welfare . . Information Gateway Children's Bureau/ACYF/ACF/HHS 800.394.3366 I Email: info@childwelfare.gov I https://www.childwelfare.gov

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