Amendment #569 to H3400

DCF- No Cost Reporting Requirements to Enable Legislative Oversight

Representatives Khan of Newton, O'Day of West Boylston, Sannicandro of Ashland, Balser of Newton, Devers of Lawrence, Fox of Boston, McMurtry of Dedham, Lawn of Watertown, Garballey of Arlington, Gregoire of Marlborough, Gordon of Bedford, Cariddi of North Adams, Rogers of Cambridge and Ferguson of Holden move to amend the bill in section 2, item 4800-0015, in line 41, by inserting after “workers” the following: “; for each area office, the number of children served by supervised visitation centers and the number of those children who are reunified with their families; for each area office, the total number of children served, their ages, the number of children in out-of-home placements and the number of placements each child has had before receiving an out-of-home placement; for each area office, the number of kinship guardianship subsidies provided in the quarter covered by the report and the number of kinship guardianship subsidies provided in that quarter for which federal reimbursement was received; for each area office, the total spending on services other than case management services provided to families for the purposes of keeping a child with his parents or reunifying the child with his parents, spending by type of the service, and the unduplicated number of families that receive the services; for each area office, the total number of families in the month residing in shelter paid for by the department, a list of where the families are sheltered, the total cost and average cost per family of those shelters and a description of how the department determines who does or does not qualify for shelter;”