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Child welfare timeliness flagged in audit; agency reports improving trends
Summary
State auditors found repeated problems with timely face‑to‑face child welfare visits; HHS told appropriators timeliness has improved in fiscal 2024 though compliance remains a federal performance issue.
Jessica Thomason, executive director of the Human Services Division at HHS, briefed the appropriations committee on audit findings related to child welfare face‑to‑face visit timeliness and on the division’s quality assurance response.
Thomason said the state operational audit for 2022–23 included findings about timely face‑to‑face child protection visits and workforce retention grants. She presented internal quality‑assurance data showing improvement in fiscal 2024, but she acknowledged the audit finding remains a concern: the federal performance metric for timely face‑to‑face…
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