8-818

8-818. Child protective services; financial and
program accountability

A. The department, the office of strategic planning and budgeting and the joint
legislative budget committee shall develop a financial and program accountability
reporting system for child protective services.

B. The accountability reporting system shall include the following accountability
factors:

1. Success in meeting training requirements.

2. Caseloads for child protective services workers.

3. The number of new cases, cases that remain open and cases that have been closed.

4. The ratio of child protective services workers to immediate supervisors.

5. Employee turnover, including a breakdown of employees who remain with the
department and employees who leave the department.

6. The source and use of federal monies in child protective services.

7. The source and use of state monies in child protective services.

8. Any additional factor deemed necessary by the department, office and committee.

C. The department shall issue a financial and program accountability report to the
governor and the chairpersons of the house of representatives appropriations and human
services committees and the senate appropriations and family services committees, or
their successor committees, on or before February 1 and August 1 of each year.

D. The department shall issue the first financial and program accountability report
on or before August 1, 2004. In developing the financial and program accountability
reporting system, the department, the office of strategic planning and budgeting and the
joint legislative budget committee shall review the current reporting requirements of the
department to eliminate duplication of reporting requirements and to coordinate reporting
requirements. The department, the office of strategic planning and budgeting and the
joint legislative budget committee shall also review the current information processing
capabilities to report timely and accurate information. On or before July 1, 2004, the
department shall report to the governor and the chairpersons of the house of
representatives appropriations and human services committees and the senate
appropriations and family services committees the measures to be used to report the
accountability factors, including a definition of and the methods for determining these
measures.