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Appendix A
Required CAPTA Data Items
Child Maltreatment 2002
In 1996, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act was
amended to read "Each State to which a grant is made under this
section shall annually work with the Secretary of the Department of
Health and Human Services to provide, to the maximum extent
practicable, a report that includes the following:"1
- The number of children who were reported to the State during
the year as abused or neglected.
- Of the number of children described in paragraph (1), the
number with respect to whom such reports were
- substantiated;
- unsubstantiated; or
- determined to be false.
- Of the number of children described in paragraph
(2)
- the number that did not receive services during the year under
the State program funded under this section or an equivalent State
program;
- the number that received services during the year under the
State program funded under this section or an equivalent State
program; and
- the number that were removed from their families during the
year by disposition of the case.
- The number of families that received preventive services from
the State during the year.
- The number of deaths in the State during the year resulting
from child abuse or neglect.
- Of the number of children described in paragraph (5), the
number of such children who were in foster care.
- The number of child protective services workers responsible for
the intake and screening of reports filed in the previous
year.
- The agency response time with respect to each such report with
respect to initial investigation of reports of child abuse or
neglect.
- The response time with respect to the provision of services to
families and children where an allegation of abuse or neglect has
been made.
- The number of child protective services workers responsible for
intake, assessment, and investigation of child abuse and neglect
reports relative to the number of reports investigated in the
previous year.
- The number of children reunited with their families or
receiving family preservation services that, within five years,
result in subsequent substantiated reports of child abuse and
neglect, including the death of the child.
- The number of children for whom individuals were appointed by
the court to represent the best interests of such children and the
average number of out of court contacts between such individuals
and children.
1 The latest
version of CAPTA the Keeping Children and Families Safe Act of
2003, Public Law 108-36, (42 U.S.C. 5106), retained these
provisions. back
Appendix A: Figures and Tables
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