How many children are repeat victims of maltreatment?
Eleven percent of child victims of maltreatment were estimated to have been victims of at least one additional incident of maltreatment within 12 months. The State child protective services (CPS) agency must ensure that the child’s safety is the paramount concern in all decision-making. The CPS agency must make every effort to utilize assessment tools to determine the dangers to the child and the family, the problems precipitating those dangers, and the families who are most likely to re-abuse their children. The CPS agency should make accessible, timely, and appropriate services available to these families and children and evaluate the results of these interventions before deciding to close the case. 2. Is permanency being achieved for children under the placement and care responsibility of State child welfare agencies? Eighty-two percent of children exiting foster care left to permanent placements: 66 percent were reunified with their families or other relatives, 14 percent were adop
