Pennsylvania Auditor General Recommends 28 Changes To Improve Child Welfare System

To improve performance of Pennsylvania's child welfare system, Eugene DePasquale, the commonwealth’s Auditor General, made 28 recommendations, targeting the legislature; the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services' (DHS) Office of Children, Youth and Families (OCYF); county children and youth services (CYS) units; the state police; and to a small extent, private provider organizations.

The auditor’s top five recommendations, in terms of making the largest impact to improve operations, were as follows:

Where possible the OCYF should reduce the amount of unnecessary mandated data that must be entered for each case.
OCYF should continue changes to the Child Welfare . . .