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November 19, 2003
 Child Welfare:
States Face Challenges in Developing
Information Systems and
Reporting Reliable Child
Welfare Data
To better monitor
children and families served by
state child welfare agencies,
Congress authorized matching
funds for the development of
statewide automated child
welfare information systems (SACWIS)
and required that the
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) compile
information on the children
served by state agencies. This
testimony is based on our July 2003
report and addresses the following:
(1) states' experiences in developing
child welfare information
systems and HHS's role in
assisting in their development,
(2) factors that affect the
reliability of data that states collect
and report on children served
by their child welfare agencies
and HHS's role in ensuring
the reliability of those data,
and (3) practices that child welfare
agencies use to overcome challenges
associated with SACWIS development
and data reliability.
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