Administrative Burdens in Child Welfare Systems

Recent Changes in Alabama Welfare and Work, Child Care, and Child Welfare Systems

Alabama has a long history of providing a modest safety net for low-income families and children, supplying more limited income support than almost any other state. The state’s policies toward lowincome families have been closely linked to federal policy, with little state funding beyond that required to draw down available federal funds. Since the first round of site visits, a large influx of ...

Using Child Welfare Administrative Data in the Permanency Innovations Initiative Evaluation

Administrative data provide a rich source of information for child welfare administrators and the child welfare research community. With administrative data, program managers, evaluators and others may examine who is served by the child welfare system, engage in continuous quality improvement efforts, and evaluate changes in service delivery outputs and outcomes over time. In addition, using ad...

Alleviating SMEs' Administrative Burdens: The Rural Inclusion Initiative

Reducing the administrative burdens of businesses and citizens comprises a major area of e-government benefit. Reducing SMEs’ efforts to find information on particular public services is a challenge for the European Union. This aim can be achieved through semantic services along with an innovative training approach for public administration employees and SMEs. The paper presents the preliminary...

GAO-04-267T Child Welfare: States Face Challenges in Developing Information Systems and Reporting Reliable Child Welfare Data

To view the full product, including the scope and methodology, click on the link above. HHS reported that 47 states are developing or operating a SACWIS, but many states continue to face challenges developing their systems. Most state officials said they recognize the benefit their state will achieve by developing SACWIS, such as contributing to the timeliness of child abuse and neglect investi...

Welfare Reform’s Impact on Child Welfare