Section 21-902. Quarterly Reports Regarding Child Welfare System

Beginning
  no later than July 31, 2006 and no later than the last day of the  month
  following  each  calendar  quarter  thereafter,  ACS will furnish to the
  speaker of the city council a report regarding  New  York  City's  child
  welfare system that includes, at a minimum, the following information:
    1.  Child  protective  services.  The  following information regarding
  child protective services shall be included  in  the  quarterly  report,
  disaggregated by zone:
    a.  number  of  case  workers employed and number of vacancies in case
  work staff at the end of the reporting period;
    b. experience of case workers, broken down by years of  experience  in
  New   York  City's  child  welfare  system  as  follows:  1-3  years  of
  experience; 3-5 years of experience; 5-7 years of experience; 7-9  years
  of experience; 9 or more years of experience;
    c. average caseload of case workers;
    d. number of case workers with a caseload of more than 15 cases;
    e. number of level one supervisors;
    f.  experience  of  level  one  supervisors,  broken  down by years of
  experience in New York City's child welfare system  as  follows:  number
  with  1-5  years of experience; 5-10 years of experience; 10-15 years of
  experience; 15-20 years of experience; 20 or more years of experience;
    g. number of level two supervisors;
    h. experience of level  two  supervisors,  broken  down  by  years  of
  experience  in  New  York City's child welfare system as follows: number
  with 1-5 years of experience; 5-10 years of experience; 10-15  years  of
  experience; 15-20 years of experience; 20 or more years of experience;
    i. number of child protective managers;
    j.  experience  of  child protective managers, broken down by years of
  experience in New York City's child welfare system  as  follows:  number
  with  1-5  years of experience; 5-10 years of experience; 10-15 years of
  experience; 15-20 years of experience; 20 or more years of experience;
    k. number of reports of suspected child abuse or neglect  referred  to
  the zone for investigation, disaggregated by the type of case;
    l.  number  of reports of suspected child abuse or neglect referred to
  the zone for investigation that  were  indicated  during  the  reporting
  period,  disaggregated  by  the  type  of  case and whether the case was
  referred to preventive services, court mandated  services,  foster  care
  placement or closed;
    m. number of unfounded cases, disaggregated by whether or not the case
  was referred to preventive services;
    n.  number of investigations that resulted in closure without referral
  to preventive services, disaggregated by the type of  case  and  whether
  the case was indicated or unfounded and the reason for closure;
    o.  number  of reports of suspected child abuse or neglect referred to
  the zone that involved a family with respect to which ACS  had  received
  at  least one prior report of suspected abuse or neglect within the past
  24 months, disaggregated by the type of case;
    p. number of reports of suspected child abuse or neglect  referred  to
  the  zone  that involved a family that had at least one child previously
  in the foster care system, disaggregated by the type of case;
    q. number of reports of suspected child abuse or neglect  referred  to
  protective  services  for  which protective services conducted a 72-hour
  case conference, disaggregated by the type of case;
    r. number of reports of suspected child abuse or neglect  referred  to
  protective  services  for  which  an  elevated risk conference was held,
  disaggregated by the type of case;
    s. number of IRT investigations commenced; and
    t. number of entry orders sought and number of entry orders obtained.

    2. Family Reunification. The following  information  regarding  family
  reunification shall be provided in the quarterly report:
    a.  number  of families reunited from foster care during the reporting
  period, disaggregated by zone and by length of stay in  foster  care  in
  six month intervals;
    b. of all families reunited during the reporting period, the number of
  families  receiving aftercare services, disaggregated by zone and by the
  type of services being received; and
    c. number of children who entered foster  care  during  the  reporting
  period  who  had  been in the custody of the child welfare system within
  the  thirty-six  months  immediately  preceding  the  reporting  period,
  disaggregated by zone.
    3. ACS may use preliminary data to prepare the report required by this
  chapter  to  be delivered no later than July 31, 2006 and may include an
  acknowledgement  that  any  preliminary  data  used  in  the  report  is
  non-final and subject to change.