California Child Safety Indicators Dashboard

Child Population

Allegations

Investigations

Substantiations

Entries

The data in this chart are from the same calendar year and provide an overview of the relative frequency of child-welfare safety decisions. Children are counted once at each level of involvement (unduplicated counts). This is not a cohort analysis. A child counted at one level of child-welfare involvement (e.g., Entries) is not necessarily counted at the preceding level (e.g., Substantiations). A child's entry to foster care in early 2023--counted in Jan-Dec 2023 Entries--might be based on a 2022 substantiation, not included in Jan-Dec 2023 Substantiations.

Changes in Education and Legal/Law Enforcement are highlighted. Public health restrictions associated with COVID-19 began approximately March 2020.

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