PAP.15.6.050 Child Safety.

(a) Child protective services. The LCO Kinship Care Office has reasonable cause to suspect that the child has been abused or neglected or has been threatened with abuse or neglect and that abuse or neglect will occur shall report the facts and circumstances contributing to the suspicion to the Tribe's ICW or local child protective services agency under Wis. Stat. § 48.981(2).

(b) Court.

(1) 'Guardian; not in best interests.' If the LCO Kinship Care Office has concerns about whether it continues to be in a child's best interests to live with a relative caregiver that has been appointed the child's guardian under §DMR.1, Wis. Ch. 48, or Wis. Stat. § 48.9795 (formerly Wis. Ch. 54 guardianship), the LCO Kinship Care Office shall inform the court that appointed the guardianship.

(2) 'Parent in home; long-term kinship care.' If a child's parent resides with the child and the relative caregiver that is the child's guardian under §DMR.1 or Wis. Stat. § 48.977, for more than thirty (30) days, the LCO Kinship Care Office shall inform the court that appointed the guardianship.

(A) Guardianships granted as a form of permanency after a minor in need of care (MNC) case under §DMR.1 or Wis. Ch. 48 action, are the result of a child welfare matter, in which child safety may have been an issue. Therefore, it is imperative that the LCO Kinship Care Office responds accordingly when the Office becomes aware of a situation that circumvents the guardianship.