Each year, the Department of Human Services (DHS) releases an annual report highlighting the trends of the child welfare system.According to the 2023 Annual Chi
Each year, the Department of Human Services releases an annual report highlighting the trends of the child welfare system. Each year, the Department of Human Services releases an annual report highlighting the trends of the child welfare system.there were a total of 40,301 reports of child abuse in 2023. That’s 1,208 more total cases than in 2022.
The director of bureau programs, policy and operations with the Office of Children, Youth, and Families at DHS, Amanda Dorris, said that is because children weren’t being seen by mandated reports as frequently. “I think we need to move forward from COVID and really focus on what keeps children safe,” Dorris said.For each report of child abuse or neglect that comes into DHS, the agency investigates the report to determine in abuse is happening.
“The fewer substantiated cases we seem, that means that fewer children were actually abused as that's defined in Pennsylvania,” Evans said.
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