430.8 Utilization review.
(a) General. Sections 430.8-430.12 of this Part establish the
department's utilization review regulations for foster care and preventive services cases.
These standards require that family relationships are sustained whenever possible, that
each child's interests for sound and permanent relationships are protected, and that
appropriate services are provided to every client. To these ends the standards provide
that:
(1) every family with a child at clear risk of
foster care placement receives preventive services to improve the family relationships and
prevent the placement;
(2) only children who must be removed from
their families in order to be provided proper care, nurturance or treatment are placed in
foster care;
(3) children in foster care are placed in the
least restrictive, most home-like setting possible; and
(4) every possible effort is undertaken to
prepare each child and his family for the dscharge of the child.
(b) All documentation required in sections 430.9-430.12 of this Part
shall be recorded in the form and manner required by OCFS and specified in Part 428 of
this Title.