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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Oct 16, 2017
Child Welfare Oversight and Accountability Act of 2017
This bill address foster care services in state child welfare programs, including the use of private, for-profit foster care services.
Specifically, the bill:
supports states placing children with family members, including by providing financial support to states for all children placed with family members, not just children removed from poor families;
expands oversight of state child welfare systems, including by requiring states to annually review child fatalities from maltreatment;
establishes workload and training standards for child welfare workers;
requires states to assess and report to the Department of Health and Human Services on the performance of foster care providers; and
gives an individual who is or was a child in foster care the right to seek relief in civil court if a state fails to meet certain case plan and case review requirements.
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Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] · R–UT
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
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