The Department of Child Safety is not providing full information to foster care review boards, making it difficult to determine the permanent status of more than 11,000 Arizona children, a state report says.
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — The Department of Child Safety is not providing some information to local foster care review boards, leaving volunteer board members without data they need to help determine the permanent status of more than 11,000 children in out-of-home care, according to a new state report.
Foster care review boards were established by the Legislature in 1978 in response to concern that foster children were being"lost" in out-of-home care and staying too long in temporary placement. To do their jobs, Perry said, boards need to review the actions of DCS. That includes whether reasonable efforts were made to prevent the child's removal from home in the first place and whether remaining at home would be contrary to the child's welfare.
In one situation where a caseworker did not attend, the child under review actually had been hospitalized for suspected physical abuse prior to their first out-of-home placement. She said that meant the board had no current information about the child's health conditions or the status of any criminal investigation against the parents.
DCS began using its Guardian system in early 2021 which is designed for caseworkers to manage and store information about individual cases. It is that system that is used by the AOC to provide the local boards with what they need.
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