Federal/National Reports

Joint Report of Child Advocacy Institute and First Star. Mass gets a D-. DSS responds that report looks at disclosure laws on the books rather than DSS actual practices. Child Advocate says disclosure of case details to the public not the relevant criterion.

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…

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 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…

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…