Child Welfare Consent Decrees: Analysis of Thirty-Five Court Actions from 1995 to 2005

March 15, 2006 Child Welfare Consent Decrees: Analysis of Thirty-Five Court Actions from 1995 to 2005 Over the past ten years many state child welfare systems have operated under consent decrees that mandate what services must be offered. 2006 legislation in both houses of Congress seeks to time-limit decrees in all forms, including child welfare decrees. This report is a comprehensive analysis of ten years of child welfare class-action litigation in 32 states and consent decrees or settlements in 30 of those states. The findings are analyzed nationally as well as state-by-state. The are also . . .