Methodology
Federal Safety Standard 2
S2.1: No Maltreatment In Foster Care

Notes on Source Data

IMPORTANT NOTE: The following methodology may include references to report features not available on the public site version. On the public site, masking is performed to protect the privacy of individuals served by CDSS and comply with CDSS data de-identification guidelines. Values of 1 to 10 and calculations based on values of 1 to 10 are masked ('M' or '*'). In stratified views of the data, additional values (the lowest available) are masked to prevent calculation of values 1 to 10.

This safety measure reflects the percentage of children who were not victims of a substantiated maltreatment report by a foster parent or facility staff while in out-of-home care. The denominator is the total number of children served in foster care during the specified year; the numerator is the count of these children in care who were not victims of a substantiated maltreatment report by a foster parent or facility staff.

County is assigned in this analysis using the county specific code from the assignment table that is active at the beginning of the specified time period.

Please also note that, for summary tables, the total of all counties may be higher than the total for California, since a child can be counted in more than one county.

This measure may also be run with filters in place to restrict the data to various subgroups of other variables (e.g., Black subgroup of the Ethnicity variable,< 1 year old subgroup of the Age variable, etc.). Please see the links below for details:

Cells containing a period (".") represent a value of zero. In cells representing quotients, a period may also indicate the indeterminate form 0/0.

Please note: we recognize there may be data quality issues with this measure. However, data for this analysis are reported as entered in the CWS/CMS System per ACL numbers 03-61 (http://www.dss.cahwnet.gov/lettersnotices/entres/getinfo/acl03/pdf/03-61.pdf) and 05-09 (http://www.dss.cahwnet.gov/lettersnotices/entres/getinfo/acl05/pdf/05-09.pdf) which provide instruction and clarification on reporting requirements.

Agency Type

Age Group

Ethnic Group

Sex at Birth