(a) prepare and make available on a regular basis to each authorized
agency such data as they may require to meet the purposes of this title;
(b) issue regular reports setting forth aggregate statewide and local
statistical data with appropriate analyses, but not including individual
identifying information; and
(c) issue reports as to the capabilities of the service and the types
of information maintained by the service.
9. The department in consultation with the advisory committee shall
prepare and submit an annual report to the governor and the legislature
as part of the annual report required to be filed prior to the fifteenth
day of December of each year by subdivision (d) of section seventeen of
this chapter on its progress in the development and operation of the
service, including any significant problems encountered or anticipated
in the design and operation of the service and any recommendations for
administrative or legislative changes that would further the purposes of
this title.
10. The state child care review service established pursuant to this
title shall design and implement a system to:
(a) monitor all financial claims made by social services districts for
each child in foster care and child and family in receipt of preventive
services pursuant to title four of this chapter;
(b) compile and maintain a cumulative record of information with
respect to actions taken on behalf of each individual child throughout
his or her length of stay in foster care;
(c) compile and maintain information on actions taken by local social
services districts to initiate judicial proceedings as provided by
section three hundred fifty-eight-a of this chapter and to comply with
judicial orders made pursuant to section one thousand eighty-nine of the
family court act, to refer legally free children to the state adoption
service pursuant to section three hundred seventy-two-c of this chapter,
and to comply with the provisions of section four hundred nine-e of this
article and the regulations of the office of children and family
services promulgated thereunder; and
(e) compile and maintain comparative data for authorized agencies
including, but not limited to, characteristics and numbers of children
entering care and their families, admissions practices, delineated
reasons for initial and continued placement or provision of preventive
or child protective services, length of stay in care, length of time in
receipt of preventive services or child protective services, foster care
reentry rates, number of children discharged to parents and relatives,
the characteristics, numbers and rates of children leaving foster care
through adoption, costs of care and preventive services and other
information indicative of authorized agency performance.