E.D. v. Department of Public Welfare

MIRARCHI, Jr., Senior Judge.

E.D. petitions this Court to review an order of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (the Department) adopting a recommendation of a hearing officer that E.D.’s appeal from a decision of the Department’s Office of Children, Youth and Families (OCYF) be denied. OCYF had filed an indicated report of child abuse against E.D. We reverse.

The hearing officer made extensive findings of fact that we summarize as follows. E.D. and his wife have been foster parents with Children and Youth Services from 1979 to 1984 and have been foster parents with Children’s Choice…