Courthouse News Service-Agency Wants to Improve Foster Care Requirements

Courthouse News Service
New Hampshire, get ready to lose your funding!!!
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Children's Bureau of the Department of Health and Human Services plans to improve the process by which the Administration for Children and Families reviews state foster care compliance.
If a state does not follow the federal child welfare program requirements, it must establish and implement a plan to remedy its non-conformities within two years. Some of the federal child welfare funds will be withheld until the state is found
to be in substantial conformity.
The bureau requests suggested improvements for the federal government review of state child welfare system, codified in regulations issued in 2000.

PROPOSED REGULATIONS

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ADMINISTRATION (ACF)

Federal monitoring of child and family service programs, request for public comment and consultation meetings: Request for public comment and consultation meetings, published April 5, 2011, written comments by May 20, 2011
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The Children's Bureau is interested in improving the process by which the Administration for Children and Families reviews Title IV-B and IV-E plan requirements. The Children’s Bureau currently reviews a state's compliance through Child and Family Service Reviews (CFSRs). Following two rounds of CFSRs in every state and the passage of several amendments to federal child welfare laws since the CFSRs began, The ACF believes it is time to reassess how the Children’s Bureau reviews Title IV-B and IV-E programs through the CFSR and identify enhancements and system improvements that could be made.