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May 2003
GAO Report
 D.C. Child
and Family Services: Better
Policy Implementation and
Documentation of Related
Activities Would Help Improve
Performance
CFSAs performance
relative to three sets of measures nine ASFA requirements, eight
selected performance criteria and six of the agency's foster
care policies has been mixed. The agency took actions to
implement six of the nine ASFA requirements related to the safety
and well-being of foster children and met or exceeded four of the
eight selected foster care performance criteria, but its plans did
not address all requirements not fully implemented and unmet
performance criteria. CSFA has established many foster care
policies, but caseworkers did not consistently implement the six
GAO examined. In addition, FACES lacked data related to four of
the policies reviewed for at least 70 percent of its active foster
care cases. The following table summarizes the percentage of cases
for which the data indicated the policy was implemented.
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