Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
The Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) is a binding and enforceable contract between two states when a child has the approval to be placed with a family or facility in another state. The Interstate Compact includes referrals on parents, relatives, foster parents, adoptive parents, and residential treatment facilities. Relatives of the first degree are excluded from the Interstate Compact if the test is met in Article VIII (Limitations) of the law.Persons who can initiate Interstate Compact referrals are private parties, the court, attorneys, and private and public child welfare agencies. Under no circumstances can a child be placed in another state without the approval of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children's Office. The child welfare agencies may send a child to visit a relative in another state for up to 30 days and during the summer school vacation with court approval without an Interstate Compact.
For children who are in the custody of Child and Family Services only, our Interstate Compact office has put together The Seven Easy Steps to ICPC to help in understanding the Interstate Compact process.
We also provide the following information and links and hope they will prove useful for you.
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To review the Utah law, please see the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children Code Citation: Utah Code Annotated, Section 62A-4a-701. Form 100A, Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children Request and Form 100B, Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children Report on Child's Placement Status can be used by anyone processing an Interstate Case for adoptions, foster care, kinship, or residential treatment center placements. Also, Form 1, Utah Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children Adoptions Checklist can be used as a guideline in preparing an Interstate Referral for a Utah placement. For additional information about the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, you may want visit the Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children at http://icpc.aphsa.org/. In addition, you may want to review the Guide to the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children. To find out more information about the program in Utah, the Utah Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children annual report is available online. |