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The purpose of this Informational Letter (INF) is to advise local departments of social services (LDSS) and voluntary authorized agencies (VA) of the new provisions enacted in the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. This act provides categorical eligibility for free meals for any foster child whose care and placement is the responsibility of the LDSS or who is placed by the court with a caretaker household and is attending a public school. For purposes of this INF, children placed with a caretaker household shall mean children directly placed with a non-parent under court ordered supervision, or children discharged into a kinship guardianship assistance arrangement. There are multiple ways for LDSS and VA to meet the requirements of this act. This INF provides a suggested protocol which LDSS and VA should use to inform school districts of the names of foster care children in their care and custody or the names of children who are placed by the court with a caretaker household that is under their supervision or for whom they are paying kinship guardianship assistance (KinGAP.)
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