Section 407. Powers of department of social welfare

The department is
  hereby authorized and required:
    1.  to prepare a plan or plans for such  child  welfare  services  and
  upon their approval by such federal authority to execute the same.  Such
  plans  shall  make  provision  for  coordination  between  the  services
  provided under such plans and the services provided as family assistance
  under title ten of article five with the view of providing  welfare  and
  related  services  which  will  best promote the welfare of children and
  their families.
    2.  to allocate and disburse to districts,  counties  or  other  local
  subdivisions of the state such amounts from moneys received by the state
  under  the provisions of this title as are available for payment of part
  of the cost of district, county or other local child welfare services in
  accordance with such approved plans.   Such district, county  and  other
  local  subdivisions  of  the  state are hereby authorized to receive and
  expend such allotments but only for  the  purposes  of  such  plans  and
  subject  to  the  supervision  and  general direction of the department.
  Such district, county and other local subdivisions shall, when  required
  by  the  department to comply with the provisions of such approved plan,
  perform the functions required.
    3.  to develop within the department services  for  the  encouragement
  and   assistance   of   adequate  methods  of  community  child  welfare
  organization in accordance with such approved plans.
    4.  to establish and to alter and amend such  regulations  as  may  be
  necessary  for  the  administration  of such plans and the provisions of
  this title.
    5.   to prepare  for  inclusion  in  the  annual  report  required  by
  subdivision  (d)  of  section seventeen of this chapter to be filed with
  the governor and the legislature prior to the fifteenth day of  December
  of  each  year,  a  written  evaluation  report of the delivery of child
  welfare services in the state.   Such evaluation report  shall  include,
  but  need not be limited to, supervision of foster care and the agencies
  providing such care, information on the types of problems  creating  the
  need for foster care placements, preventive and protective services, the
  transfer of children in care and the reasons therefor, identification of
  target  groups  not receiving adequate services, and projected plans for
  providing services to such groups.  Such report shall  include  progress
  made  and  problems  encountered  in  the  implementation  of "the child
  welfare reform act of 1979", and amendments thereto.  Such report  shall
  also  include  aggregate  expenditures; persons receiving services; cost
  comparisons among social services districts, among types of services and
  services  programs,  and  among  fiscal   periods;   unit   costs;   and
  cost-effectiveness  of  the provision of preventive services pursuant to
  title  four  of  this  chapter.  In  developing  such  evaluation,   the
  department  shall  consult  and  coordinate  with  the  board  of social
  welfare, the division for youth, and the departments of mental  hygiene,
  health and education.