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Letter
Child Maltreatment 2001

ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES Administration on Children, Youth and Families 330 C Street, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20447

Letter from the Associate Commissioner:

I am pleased to present a copy of Child Maltreatment 2001. This twelfth annual publication of data collected via the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) is for calendar year 2001. It reflects our commitment to provide the most complete national information about child maltreatment known to the States' child protective services (CPS) agencies.

Key findings in this report include the following.

• Nationally, an estimated 903,000 children were victims of abuse and neglect.
• Three million referrals concerning the welfare of approximately five million children were made to CPS agencies throughout the United States. Nationally, 67.3 percent of all referrals (approximately 1,789,000) were screened in and 32.7 percent (approximately 870,000) were screened out.
• During 2001, 59.2 percent of child victims suffered neglect (including medical neglect), 18.6 percent were physically abused, 9.6 percent were sexually abused, and 6.8 percent were emotionally or psychologically maltreated.
• A national estimate of 1,300 children died of abuse or neglect —a rate of 1.81 children per 100,000 children in the population.

Included in this report are findings at the national and State level on perpetrators of maltreatment, CPS workforce workload, and preventive and postinvestigation services.

I hope that you find this report to be a useful reference. The document will be posted on the World Wide Web site of the Administration for Children and Families at http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb. For additional copies of the report and other information about child maltreatment, contact the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information at 1-800-FYI-3366, or nccanch@calib.com, or http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov.

Sincerely, Susan Orr, Ph.D. Associate Commissioner Children's Bureau

 

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