CWEL EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS 2026
EXAM PAPER FINAL QUESTIONS AND FULL
SOLUTIONS
◉ BH V. MCDONALD Answer: Requires DCFS to meet a standard of
care that:
Protects children in DCFS custody from foreseeable and preventable
harm.
Provides minimally adequate health care, including mental health
care forserious mental health needs.
Provides minimally adequate training, education, and services to
enable children to secure their own safety and provide for their
needs. It contains specific provisions for:
Protective services
Screenings and assessments
Case plans
Administrative case reviews
Case records
Case staffing and management (caseload ratios) Health care
Licensing, training and quality assurance
◉ BURGOS V. SUTER Answer: Requires DCFS to:
,Provide servicesin Spanish for Spanish-speaking clients.
Maintain and/or hire a minimum number of bilingual employees.
Provide a 24-hour central telephone number to assist Spanish-
speaking clients.
Provide certain documents with accompanying Spanish translation.
Provide child welfare and counseling servicesto Spanish-speaking
Hispanic clients by bilingual employees.
Place Spanish-speaking children of Spanish-speaking Hispanic
clients with Spanish-speaking foster parents.
Obtain an affidavit from a bilingual employee stating that
documents requiring signature from a Spanish-speaking Hispanic
client have been translated and explained in Spanish.
Ensure that bilingual social workers serving this class shall not have
caseloads larger than others in the same office.
◉ HILL V. ERICKSON Answer: Requires DCFS to:
Provide adequate placement and programming for DCFS youth in
care who are pregnant and/or parenting.
Appoint full time teen parent coordinators.
Consult with quality assurance, ACR units, and training units.
◉ IN RE LEE/WESLEY Answer: Requires the DCFS Guardianship
Administrator to notify the Guardianship and Advocacy Commission
, within 24 hours of admission of a Cook County youth in care to a
mental health or drug dependency facility.
◉ KATIE I. ET ALL V. TED KIMBROUGH, THE CHICAGO BOARD OF
EDUCATION ET ALL Answer: This decree requires DCFS to:
Notify the Board of Education when a youth in care is admitted to a
shelter.
Provide the Board of Education with appropriate identification of
DCFS youth in care in shelter care. Enable enrollment in an
educational program.
Verify immunization records of youth in care in shelter care.
◉ NORMAN V. SUTER Answer: Requires DCFS to: Not remove
children or refuse to return children to their parents solely because
of poverty or homelessness.
Establish reasonable time guidelines to return children or initiate
court actions to do so.
Make reasonable efforts to keep children in parents' custody in
domestic violence situations, unless danger is imminent, including
exploring alternative housing and shelters for battered women.
Provide housing, temporary shelter, case assistance, food, clothing,
child care, emergency care takers, and advocacy with public and
community agencies.
Not remove children or prevent return of children to their parents
because parents or guardians are living in shelters or housing
EXAM PAPER FINAL QUESTIONS AND FULL
SOLUTIONS
◉ BH V. MCDONALD Answer: Requires DCFS to meet a standard of
care that:
Protects children in DCFS custody from foreseeable and preventable
harm.
Provides minimally adequate health care, including mental health
care forserious mental health needs.
Provides minimally adequate training, education, and services to
enable children to secure their own safety and provide for their
needs. It contains specific provisions for:
Protective services
Screenings and assessments
Case plans
Administrative case reviews
Case records
Case staffing and management (caseload ratios) Health care
Licensing, training and quality assurance
◉ BURGOS V. SUTER Answer: Requires DCFS to:
,Provide servicesin Spanish for Spanish-speaking clients.
Maintain and/or hire a minimum number of bilingual employees.
Provide a 24-hour central telephone number to assist Spanish-
speaking clients.
Provide certain documents with accompanying Spanish translation.
Provide child welfare and counseling servicesto Spanish-speaking
Hispanic clients by bilingual employees.
Place Spanish-speaking children of Spanish-speaking Hispanic
clients with Spanish-speaking foster parents.
Obtain an affidavit from a bilingual employee stating that
documents requiring signature from a Spanish-speaking Hispanic
client have been translated and explained in Spanish.
Ensure that bilingual social workers serving this class shall not have
caseloads larger than others in the same office.
◉ HILL V. ERICKSON Answer: Requires DCFS to:
Provide adequate placement and programming for DCFS youth in
care who are pregnant and/or parenting.
Appoint full time teen parent coordinators.
Consult with quality assurance, ACR units, and training units.
◉ IN RE LEE/WESLEY Answer: Requires the DCFS Guardianship
Administrator to notify the Guardianship and Advocacy Commission
, within 24 hours of admission of a Cook County youth in care to a
mental health or drug dependency facility.
◉ KATIE I. ET ALL V. TED KIMBROUGH, THE CHICAGO BOARD OF
EDUCATION ET ALL Answer: This decree requires DCFS to:
Notify the Board of Education when a youth in care is admitted to a
shelter.
Provide the Board of Education with appropriate identification of
DCFS youth in care in shelter care. Enable enrollment in an
educational program.
Verify immunization records of youth in care in shelter care.
◉ NORMAN V. SUTER Answer: Requires DCFS to: Not remove
children or refuse to return children to their parents solely because
of poverty or homelessness.
Establish reasonable time guidelines to return children or initiate
court actions to do so.
Make reasonable efforts to keep children in parents' custody in
domestic violence situations, unless danger is imminent, including
exploring alternative housing and shelters for battered women.
Provide housing, temporary shelter, case assistance, food, clothing,
child care, emergency care takers, and advocacy with public and
community agencies.
Not remove children or prevent return of children to their parents
because parents or guardians are living in shelters or housing
