Florida Auditor Cites Documentation Problems With Child Welfare Lead Agency Contracts

The Florida Office of the Auditor General has found problems with the Florida Department of Children and Families' (DCF) oversight of its Community Based Care (CBC) child welfare lead agencies, particularly its oversight of contract payment reconciliation. The auditor said DCF had not always adequately conducted, documented, reviewed, and reported the results of CBC monitoring. In particular, DCF failed to conduct overall reconciliations between expenditure and service data across state accounting and grant tracking systems. As of September 2014, DCF had 20 CBC contracts with 17 entities. Total expenditures for July 2012 through December 2013 were $1.3 billion. As . . .