When a child leaves foster care in Illinois and is returned to their parents’ home, child welfare workers are supposed to fill out home safety checklists to document the home is, indeed, safe for that child.
That’s been the law in Illinois for one year, and it’s such a sensible requirement for the safety of previously abused or neglected children — making sure there are working smoke detectors in place and that firearms are secured, for instance — that we can’t understand why the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services hasn’t figured out how to do it.
