Child Welfare Oversight and Accountability Act of 2017 2017-10-16 Introduced in Senate Child Welfare Oversight and Accountability Act of 2017

This bill address foster care services in state child welfare programs, including the use of private, for-profit foster care services.

Specifically, the bill:

  • supports states placing children with family members, including by providing financial support to states for all children placed with family members, not just children removed from poor families;
  • expands oversight of state child welfare systems, including by requiring states to annually review child fatalities from maltreatment;
  • establishes workload and training standards for child welfare workers;
  • requires states to assess and report to the Department of Health and Human Services on the performance of foster care providers; and
  • gives an individual who is or was a child in foster care the right to seek relief in civil court if a state fails to meet certain case plan and case review requirements.
]]> text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.