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TITLE 40SOCIAL SERVICES AND ASSISTANCE
PART 19DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES
CHAPTER 700CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
SUBCHAPTER LPERMANENCY PLANNING
RULE §700.1210What is a permanency planning meeting?

(a) A permanency planning meeting is a multi-disciplinary meeting that involves and takes into account the input of the persons and entities involved in a child's case, including those listed in §263.0021(b), Texas Family Code.

(b) The purpose of a permanency planning meeting is to:

  (1) identify a child's permanency goal;

  (2) identify any barriers to achieving the child's permanency goal; and

  (3) develop strategies and determine actions to achieve the child's permanency goal.

(c) Except as otherwise provided in federal and state law, a child's permanency goal should involve the child's timely exit from the managing conservatorship of DFPS to the home of an individual or family who assumes permanent legal, cultural, familial, and other responsibility for the child.

(d) A permanency planning meeting is conducted in accordance with §263.009, Texas Family Code.


Source Note: The provisions of this §700.1210 adopted to be effective March 1, 2016, 41 TexReg 1122

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