2011 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 8 Children
8-818 Child protective services; financial and program accountability

8-818. Child protective services; financial and program accountability

A. The department, the office of strategic planning and budgeting and the joint legislative budget committee shall develop a financial and program accountability reporting system for child protective services.

B. The accountability reporting system shall include the following accountability factors:

1. Success in meeting training requirements.

2. Caseloads for child protective services workers.

3. The number of new cases, cases that remain open and cases that have been closed.

4. The ratio of child protective services workers to immediate supervisors.

5. Employee turnover, including a breakdown of employees who remain with the department and employees who leave the department.

6. The source and use of federal monies in child protective services.

7. The source and use of state monies in child protective services.

8. Any additional factor deemed necessary by the department, office and committee.

C. The department shall issue a financial and program accountability report to the governor and the chairpersons of the house of representatives appropriations and human services committees and the senate appropriations and family services committees, or their successor committees, on or before February 1 and August 1 of each year.

D. The department shall issue the first financial and program accountability report on or before August 1, 2004. In developing the financial and program accountability reporting system, the department, the office of strategic planning and budgeting and the joint legislative budget committee shall review the current reporting requirements of the department to eliminate duplication of reporting requirements and to coordinate reporting requirements. The department, the office of strategic planning and budgeting and the joint legislative budget committee shall also review the current information processing capabilities to report timely and accurate information. On or before July 1, 2004, the department shall report to the governor and the chairpersons of the house of representatives appropriations and human services committees and the senate appropriations and family services committees the measures to be used to report the accountability factors, including a definition of and the methods for determining these measures.