MN SF3981

Out-of-home placement plans for foster children not yet of compulsory school age must now include efforts to maintain the child's enrollment in their current early childhood education or child care program, or document specific reasons why continued enrollment is not feasible or in the child's best interest

Social services agencies, licensed child-placing agencies, and guardians ad litem must provide foster parents with information about local early childhood education and child care options, Northstar foster care child care allowance, and eligibility and application processes for child care assistance and early learning scholarships

Placement plans must include educational records from child care and early childhood programs, including provider information, program records, and statements about how foster placement proximity to the child's enrolled program was considered

Amends Minnesota Statutes section 260C.212 to add early childhood education stability requirements parallel to existing K-12 educational stability provisions for school-age foster children