Effective October 1993, legislation required reporting of dependency allegations, as well as reports of abuse and neglect. Data reflect duplicated data. Some credible evidence. The number of reports represents each report accepted for investigation regardless of the number of children involved in the report. The number of report sources is related to the number of children who are the subject of a report.
Dispositions are child based.
The change in August 1994 to collecting less child data is reflected in the smaller number of maltreatment types than substantiated victims. The number does not include children who were in protective custody in their own homes. This item counts those children who were removed by the date of the case decision and were entered into the child placement system. Data were supplied by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The number of fatalities may differ from those of the Department of Human Resources because of definitional differences.