Clothing and personal possessions of children.

1. Each child must have his or her own clothing and personal possessions as well as storage space for them. Children must not be required to share personal clothing items with other children. The gender identity or expression of each child must be respected with regard to the child’s choice of clothing and personal possessions. 2. Clothing must be of the correct size and type, and appropriate to climatic conditions, and must be kept clean and in good repair. Clothing allowances issued or authorizations to purchase clothing must be used for the child intended and only for clothing items. The receipts for the purchase of such clothing items must be maintained by the foster home. 3. Each child’s clothes and personal possessions are the property of the child and must be inventoried, on a form provided by the agency which provides child welfare services, at the time of placement and discharge from a foster home and sent with the child when he or she leaves the placement. If a child is emancipated or transitioned into another placement, the child must be given and allowed to take with him or her all clothing and other personal possessions that the child acquired while residing at a foster home. As used in this subsection, “personal possessions” includes, without limitation, scrapbooks, photographs and gifts.