225 ILCS 10/2.40: National consortium recommendations.

"National consortium recommendations" means the preferred standards of national organizations with expertise in relative home care developed to establish requirements or criteria for relative homes that are no more or only minimally more restrictive than necessary to comply with the requirements under Sections 471 and 474 of the Social Security Act, Public Law 115-123. Consortium recommendations include criteria for assessing relative homes for safety, sanitation, protection of civil rights, use of the reasonable and prudent parenting standard, and background screening for caregivers and other residents in the caregiver home.