Child Welfare Data Reports

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This section provides all of the publicly available Massachusetts Department of Children and Families data reports we are aware of.  It also includes relevant Juvenile Court statistics. Not all of these are currently easily accessible online. This site includes:

Please note that not all reports required by state law are publicly available.

If you are aware of other publicly available reports that contain data from the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, please let us know by emailing eemmerich@mlri.org.

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DCF Annual Report on Foster Care Review

Department of Children and Families
These reports are required by G.L. c. 18B, Section 6A (see https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleII/Chapter18b/Section6a).  The following information is to be reported annually by the director of the foster care review unit to i) the governor ii) the child advocate and iii)…

DCF Legislative Report on Safe Haven Act

Department of Children and Families

Child Welfare Title IV-E Waiver Demonstrations Interim Evaluation Report

Department of Children and Families
Through the Title IV-E Waiver Demonstration, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS), the Department of Children and Families (DCF) and the Department of Mental Health (DMH) embarked on a joint undertaking to create an integrated service delivery…

DCF Multiple 51A Reports

Department of Children and Families
These reports are required by G.L. c. 18B, Section 25 (see https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleII/Chapter18b/Section25).  The commissioner is to report on a quarterly basis on the total number of cases of multiple 51A reports reviewed by the department under subsection…

Child and Family Services Plan (CFSP)

Department of Children and Families
Child and Family Services Plan (CFSP) The CFSP is a five-year strategic plan that sets forth the vision and the goals to be accomplished to strengthen the states' overall child welfare system. It is reported by states in order to receive federal funding under Title IV-B.  The goals…

Department of Children and Families Statistical Information

DCF
Click the "Go to Website" link below to access statistical information from DCF, including: Department of Children and Families Quarterly Reports Annual Data Profiles Analysis of Child Fatalities Child Maltreatment Statistics Children Awaiting Resolution and Disposition Data…

DCF Child Welfare Act Report

Department of Children and Families
These reports are required by the Child Welfare Act of 2008 (See https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2008/Chapter176). The following information is required to be reported annually with the clerks of the senate and the house, the senate and house committees on ways and means, the…

Child Welfare Area Profiles

Department of Children and Families
These are reports that DCF currently publishes on a quarterly basis to provide basic information about its caseload.  The reports include, among other things, number of children in the caseload, number of children in out-of-home placements, and number of children in each type of…

DCF Family Resource Center Program Evaluation Report

Department of Children and Families
These reports on the Family Resource Centers are required by DCF's budget, line item 4000-0051, which must be renewed annually.  This reporting requirement remains in effect in the FY 2018 budget.  (see https://malegislature.gov/Budget/FinalBudget). The Executive Office of…

DCF Analysis of Child Fatalities & Near Fatalities

Department of Children and Families
The DCF Analysis of Child Fatalities report is an annual compilation of information on the deaths of children whose families had an open case with DCF or whose case closed within the six months prior to the child's death, as well as children whose deaths were reported to DCF pursuant to M.G.L.…

DCF Child Maltreatment Statistics

Department of Children and Families
The DCF Child Maltreatment Statistics annual report contains descriptive statistics dealing with reports, screening and investigation decisions, reporting groups, and the characteristics of maltreated children, their mothers, and perpetrators. Separate analyses are presented for each type of…

Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSR)

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (Children's Bureau/ACF)
The Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) process is undertaken by the Children's Bureau, within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, analyzing seven major child welfare outcomes in the areas of safety, permanency, and wellbeing…

KIDS COUNT Data Center

Annie E. Casey Foundation
KIDS COUNT is a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and a premier source of data on children and families. Each year, the Foundation produces comprehensive reports — including the KIDS COUNT Data Book — that assesses child well-being in the United States. These publications can be found at the…

DCF Quarterly Reports

Department of Children and Families
DCF's Quarterly Reports contain, but are not limited to, the following information: Consumer counts Consumer demographics and information Age, sex, race, hispanic origin, primary language, location  Service plan goal Continuous time in care Consumers in…

DCF Annual Report on Staffing

Department of Children and Families
These reports are required by DCF's budget, line item 4800-0015, which must be renewed annually.  This requirement still exists in the FY 2018 budget. (see https://malegislature.gov/Budget/FinalBudget). The department is mandated to report the following information annually no…

DCF Monthly Caseload Staffing Report

Department of Children and Families
These reports on DCF's caseload were required by DCF's FY 2016 budget, line item 4800-1100, (see https://malegislature.gov/Budget/FY2016/FinalBudget), but this reporting requirement ended after 2016. DCF was required to report monthly, to the Joint Committee on…

DCF Annual Progress and Services Report (APSR)

Department of Children and Families
The Annual Progress and Services Reports are required by federal law to be filed annually with the Federal Administration for Children and Families.  They contain the following information: Updates on DCF's performance of its responsibilities under:  * Title IV-B, Part…

Child Welfare Outcomes Reports to Congress

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (Children's Bureau/ACF)
The Child Welfare Outcomes Report provides information on national performance as well as the performance of individual states in seven outcome categories. In addition to reporting on state performance in these outcome categories, this report also includes findings of analyses conducted across…

DCF Quarterly Caseload Report

Department of Children and Families
These reports on DCF's caseload are required by DCF's budget, line item 4800-0015, which must be renewed annually.  These reports are still required in the FY 2018 budget. (see https://malegislature.gov/Budget/FinalBudget). The department is mandated to report the…

Juvenile Court Department Statistics

Juvenile Court Department
This data contains information about the numbers of each type of case filed in Juvenile Court in each fiscal year (including Care & Protection cases, Guardianship cases, and other relevant categories), broken down by county.  The Court has made this data available for FY 2002 through…

DCF Children Awaiting Resolution and Disposition (CARD) Data

Department of Children and Families
This report contains information on Children Awaiting Resolution and Disposition as well as other reports related to Chapter 321 of the Acts of 2008.  That act requires that: The secretary shall publish a monthly report on the status of children awaiting clinically-appropriate behavioral…

Social Services Block Grant Pre-Expenditure Reports

Department of Children and Families
On October 1, 1981, the Federal Department of Health and Human Services established the Title XX - Social Services Block Grant, as one of the seven block grant programs authorized by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (P.L. 97-35). The Social Services Block Grant is intended to…

Child Maltreatment Report

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (Children's Bureau/ACF)
Each year, the Children's Bureau produces the Child Maltreatment report using state statistics on child abuse and neglect that were gathered through the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS). National and state statistics about child maltreatment are derived from the data…