Wisconsin Child Welfare Policies and Standards

The policies, standards, and Indian child welfare information provides a resource of the state rules and regulations guiding the State of Wisconsin child welfare system.

The Policy Memos

The data table contains only those policy memos currently in effect. Sign up for an email notification when there is an update to the Policy Memos table. You will find all of the child welfare policy memos in this table. The policy memo key indicates the following:

• Info are the informational policy memos indicated by an "i" after the memo number.
• Licensing indicates those memos applicable to child welfare facility licensing policies. The memo number ends with an "L".
• Blank represents the numbered memo series.

How to find a Memo

The child welfare policy memos data table defaults to an alpha sort of the Policy Subject column. You can sort by any of the other columns by clicking on the column heading. The first click on the policy memo Number or Issue Date provides an oldest to newest sort, the second click with result in the most recent policy memos ordered first. A small blue arrow will appear to the right of the column heading indicating the sort. The Search text box will find text, numbers or dates.