WAC 110-60-0180

WAC 110-60-0180. What information must the department or child placing agency provide to prospective adoptive parents about the child that is being considered for adoption?

Last amended: 2018Year: 2026Length: 232 wordsOfficial source
(1) The department or the child placing agency must provide a medical report containing all known and available information concerning the mental, physical, and sensory handicaps of an adopted child, or a child placed for adoption, to the adoptive or prospective adoptive parents under the authority of RCW 26.33.020 , 26.33.340 , 26.33.343 and 26.33.350 . (2) The department or the child placing agency worker must provide the child's medical and family background report, DSHS 13-041(X), to the prospective adoptive parents. This report must include documentation of efforts made to obtain medical and social information on the child and birth parents. (3) The department must provide a social history report on the child and birth family that includes, at a minimum in accordance with RCW 26.33.380 : (a) Circumstances of the child's birth including all child medical records known and available to the department; (b) All case notes from the child's file to provide a chronological report of how the child came to be available for adoption; (c) The child's placement and legal history; (d) The dependency fact finding court report and the latest court reports pertaining to the dependency and custody of the child at time of pre-adoption disclosure; (e) The child's education history, including school reports and records known and available to the department; and (f) The child's psychological and psychiatric reports and recommendations known and available to the department.
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