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Educational researchers say data being kept by New York and other states is not sufficient to drill down on where schools are failing to support foster youth and to serve their particular needs.

By John Kelly The good news: as of 2021, the most recent year for most federal data, there were far less older youth in foster care compared to 15 years ago.

California has a new tool for tracking and assessing newly public, anonymous data about the outcomes for youth aging out of foster care.

A bill introduced in the Senate last week would add another annual report on the capacity of each states’ foster care system. 

The U.S. Administration for Children and Families wants to gain a national picture of what state child welfare systems know about the children and families they serve.

The latest federal numbers on juvenile incarceration have been released via the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement, a data set updated for the Department of Justice every two years by the National Center for Juvenile Justice.

New York University’s Silver School of Social Work has received what NYU called one of the largest gifts ever given to such a school, which will be used to try to crack open new insights into the problems of racism and social inequality.

The process for adding new elements to what’s known as the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System, or AFCARS, is now in litigation that started under the Trump administration and continues under President Joe Biden.

The rate of kids younger than 18 who were arrested fell in 2019, but the numbers varied across demographic groups and offenses.