Oh yeah, happens a lot when parents or the kid are in the system.

For this kid, essentially, although they didn't prep me as his case worker, had to be put in foster care to keep his other sibling safe. He had assaulted her in some degree that wasn't disclosed to me, and they still attended family sessions together so I've always been unsure of the severity.

Anytime there's a court involved with kids being taken from parents, temporary or otherwise, a foster care situation will take place over any group home type thing and will be the preferred placement where possible and safe.

Had one young girl who's parents regularly missed visitations because she was moved states after the father visited the foster home (shouldn't have had the address, all assumed the daughter passed it on). She was moved out of state to a foster home in the region I worked in, she knew her parents, but hadn't seen them in person in more than a year, mostly because both parents were addicts and both were on the last straw with the courts, and the dad's vibes and frequency of calls suggested he wasn't planning on seeing her again. That girl had to be moved after she bit a chunk of cheek off of her foster placement mom, the sweetest lady I'd met in my time there who had just gotten approved to foster and this was her first placement.

Social work sucks