The Cost of Protecting Vulnerable Children V

May 2006 The Cost of Protecting Vulnerable Children V Through interviews with child welfare agency directors and administrators, state legislators or staff members, and advocates and surveys of other stakeholders, the researchers sought to discover each state's use of Title IV-E funding and factors that affect that funding and the uses. Thirty-two interviews in ten states were completed between April and October 2005. Nationally child welfare spending increased through 2004 a 40% increase over 1996 . . .