Key legal question
Whether the refusal of the foster child placement permit could be reopened by reconsideration
Extracted holding
The applicants had no entitlement to reconsideration on the basis invoked; the authority could decline to reopen the final decision.
Extracted reasoning
Reconsideration of final administrative decisions is limited and may not serve to bypass missed appeal deadlines. The circumstances relied on were not sufficiently new or unavailable in the earlier proceedings.