Catch-22s in detecting child care fraud
Subtitle: fragmented and illogical system hinders Department of Education
By: prepared by John Hill ; California Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes
Contributors: California. Legislature. Senate. Office of Oversight and Outcomes; California. Legislature. Senate. Rules Committee
Publisher: Senate Publications & Flags
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sacramento, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 43
Subjects: Auditing; California. Dept. of Education; Child care services; California; Rules and practice; Government aid to education; Fraud investigation
Notes: "October 14, 2010."

"A report prepared for the Senate Rules Committee"--Cover.

Senate Publications & Flags stock no.: 1478-S.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 42-43).

Also available online.
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: Background; title: District attorneys and county investigators do not pursue cases that involve child care funds overseen by the Department of Education; title: Error rate studies, whatever their merits, do not necessarily identify fraud; title: District attorney's response to fraud in all stages of CalWORKs child care varies dramatically across the state; title: The Department of Education has not put in place a regulation authorizing contractors to recover improper payments; title: The Department of Education's new regulations did not include some measures suggested by the Department itself and others; title: More could be done to link databases and use other technology to detect fraud; title: Recommendations.