{"report_id":282,"form_id":"22","user_id":81,"organization_id":13,"question_id":"319","question_type":"Free_Text","text_answer":"The remaining child not being added to the TPR petition was influenced by the agency considering best interests of the child, the child's healthy condition and also local and state guidance. When the subject child was seen for her critical incident, the hospital identified that this child needed immediate care or the child would die. As a result of this, the subsequent Child Protection (CP) report, and allegations, only pertained to the subject child. The resulting investigation then focused on the critically ill child. At the initial home visit done o asses and assure safety of the reaming child, it was staff's perception that this child was healthy Further  supporting the worker's assessment of safety for the sibling child was that Law Enforcement (LE) did not place that child on a hold, creating a presumption of safety for that child. \r\n\r\nDHS guidance, driven by state statues, provides direction for local agencies on practice standards related to reasonable efforts being made for reunification (Statute 260.012), application of best interest factors and also the goal of family preservation, when possible. This statute and guidance offers itself to varying interpretations and application of best interests for a child and was a consideration when satisfying reasonable efforts while engaging the family in the child protection process. Additionally, the local agency was balancing engaging the family and supporting their cultural needs by not adding the sibling child to the TPR petition given there were not any safety concerns for this child. \r\n\r\nFinally, Minnesota state statute 260C.503 provides guidance surrounding permanency hearings. This statute lends itself to interpretation as the statute indicates that the agency must only ask the county attorney to immediately file a TPR on a sibling child when the subject child was subject to egregious harm. This language results in varying application by county\/county attorney for sibling children as some agencies file TPR's on all sibling children every time, while others do not.","created_by":81,"updated_by":81,"updated_at":"5\/26\/2021 11:19:27 am","created_at":"5\/26\/2021 11:19:27 am","id":29848}