Announcements

Public and Secure Website

Population Updates

• The Child Population annual counts were updated to incorporate the California Department of Finance (DOF) 2020–2070 Population Projections, released March 2026.
  • Child Population Estimates (Public)
  • Child Population Estimates (Secure)

Secure Website

Placement Location Report: Addition of ‘By Placement County’ Views

• We added a new ‘By Placement County’ component to the Placement Location (Secure) report that allows you to answer the question, "Which supervising counties placed the children in the selected placement county?" For those who have used the static Out-of-County Placements (Secure) report grids, this corresponds to the data available in the columns of those reports.
• With this addition, the Placement Location reports now provide all the data previously found in the static, secure-website's Out-of-County Placements reports, while adding many more options for stratification and filtering. Given this, Q1 2026 will be the last quarter we publish the secure-site Out-of-County Placements.

CWS Outcomes Workbooks: New Rows for 4B(1) and 4B(2) Tribally Approved Homes

• Consistent with last quarter's updates to the online reports, in the CWS Outcomes Workbooks (Secure), we now present the “Tribally Approved Home” category separately for 4B(1) Least Restrictive First Placement and 4B(2) Least Restrictive Predominant Placement. Throughout the workbooks, children in Tribally Approved Homes (PLC_FCLC = 7208) are counted in two new "Tribally Approved Home" rows instead of the rows titled "Other."

Public Website

TAY-Hub Refreshes: Employment Development Department Linked-Data Reports

• The Transition-Age Youth Research & Evaluation Hub (TAY-Hub) Employment Development Department (EDD) linked-data reports were updated to Q4 2025 versions, including refreshed CWS/CMS and EDD data. The Jan–Dec 2024 time period was added.
  • TAY Cumulative Employment Status by Age (Public)
  • TAY Quarters Employed by Age (Public)
  • TAY Annual Earnings by Age (Public)

TAY-Hub Erratum: TAY Annual Earnings by Age

• As of the Quarter 1, 2026 extract, for the TAY Annual Earnings by Age (Public) report, we corrected the calculation of average and median earnings when Earning Status=All. Previously, these values were inflated due to an undercount of non-employed youth in the calculations.

Secure Website

Correction to the classification of Temporary Shelter Care Facility

Public and Secure Website

Population and Rates Updates

• We added the Jan-Dec 2025 time period for:
  • Public Website
    • Allegation Rates
    • Investigation Rates
    • Substantiation Rates
    • Entry Rates
    • Disparity Indices by Ethnicity
    • Poverty Disparity Indices
  • Secure Website
    • Allegation Rates (Secure)
    • Investigation Rates (Secure)
    • Substantiation Rates (Secure)
    • Entry Rates (Secure)
    • Disparity Indices by Ethnicity (Secure)
    • Poverty Disparity Indices (Secure)
• Poverty Population data was updated: American Community Survey (ACS) 2020-2024 poverty estimates used to calculate 2025 poverty population.
  • Child Poverty Population Estimates (Public)
  • Child Poverty Population Estimates (Secure)

Secure Website

Dynamic Placement Location Report

• This new secure-site Placement Location report answers, “For the selected supervising county, in which counties are children and youth placed?” providing detail beyond what is offered by the Placement Location variable in the In Care/Point-in-Time Count reports.
• The report provides the same data as the county rows in the static Out-of-County Placements report grids, but with greater detail and flexibility. The Single County Detail View allows users to select a column variable to stratify the report (e.g., by age, sex at birth, race/ethnicity, placement type, etc.) and apply filters to examine placement location by county for selected subgroups.
• The addition of this report does not change the Placement Location variable in the In Care/Point-in-Time reports; it provides a more detailed interface using the same underlying dataset.

Modification to 4B(1) Least Restrictive First Placement and 4B(2) Least Restrictive Predominant Placement

• In support of greater visibility of placements for Native American children, Assembly Bill 562, and a forthcoming All County Letter to support counties in complying with this legislation, the CCWIP team is modifying the display of the First Placement Type variable for Measure 4B(1) Least Restrictive First Placement and the Predominant Placement Type variable for Measure 4B(2) Least Restrictive Predominant Placement. These measures will be modified so that children in Tribally Approved Homes (PLC_FCLC = 7208) are counted in a new row, "Tribally Approved Home," instead of in the row titled "Other."

CWS Outcomes Workbooks: 'Desired Direction' Indicator Added to Charts

• Charts in the CWS Outcomes workbooks now display the desired direction in the legend. This approach retains directional information when you export or clip only the chart.

Public and Secure Website

• The Child Population annual counts have been updated to incorporate the California Department of Finance (DOF) 2020–2070 Population Projections, released on September 30, 2025.
  • Public Child Population Data
  • Secure Child Population Data
  These population data are also used in the Rates, Disparity, and Poverty Population reports.

Public and Secure Website

• The July 1, 2025 period was added to the In Care/Point-in-Time report.
  • Public In Care Rates
  • Secure In Care Rates
• We added 2025 to the Child Population and Child Poverty Population Estimates.
  • Public Child Population
  • Public Child Poverty Population Estimates
  • Secure Child Population
  • Secure Child Poverty Population Estimates
• Ongoing accessibility upgrades to comply with new standards.
  • This quarter's improvements include improved color contrast in data tables and adjustments to title font size and spacing.

Secure Website

• New County Memorization Feature: With the Q2 25 Extract, the secure website, by default, will retain your county or county group selection across reports for Single County Detail View and Single County Over Time. For example, if you select Fresno County in the Single County Detail View for Measure 4-P3: Permanency in 12 Months for Children in Foster Care 24 Months or More, and then navigate to Case Openings, the Fresno County selection will be retained. The 'Update County Selection' dialog box will allow you to change this setting using a 'Remember County Selection' toggle at the top. If you turn off the feature, your county selection will not be retained, and new views and reports will default to data for the entire State of California. County memorization is effective for each session; however, your selection is not retained from one session to the next (i.e., you will need to reset your county selection the next time you log in to the secure site).

Public and Secure Website

• We added the Placement Location (In/Out of county) enhancement to the In Care/Point-in-Time report.
  • Public Site: New Dimension that stratifies Placement Location by Adjacent County, Non-adjacent County, Out of State, Runaway, Missing, and Total.
  • Use it as a row or column in a California crosstab table or chart (California Detail View), or review trends over time (Single County Over Time)
  • Public In Care/Point-in-Time
  • Secure Site: New Dimension/Filter
  • Use it as a row or column in a crosstab table or chart (Single County Detail View), review trends over time (Single County Over Time), look at a point-in-time summary for California and all counties (All County Summary View), or apply it as a filter to other tables.
  • Secure In Care/Point-in-Time
  • Note: There are slight discrepancies between the number of children reported as 'Other State', 'Other County', and 'Missing' in the Out-of-County Placements Report and the In Care—Point in Time Count Report, with 'Placement Location' selected as a dimension. We are working to eliminate these discrepancies.
• We included an Earliest Display Year option to the over-time views of Measure 4-S2: Recurrence of Maltreatment on both the secure and public sites this quarter.
  • Public Measure 4-S2: Recurrence of Maltreatment
  • Secure Measure 4-S2: Recurrence of Maltreatment
• The Child Population annual counts for the years 2020-2024 have been updated with the latest California Department of Finance (DOF) Report P-3: Population Projections by Race/Ethnicity, Detailed Age, and Gender, 2020-2070 - April 2025.
  • Public Child Population Data
  • Secure Child Population Data
  These population data are also used in the Rates and Disparity reports.

Public Website

• The Transition Age Youth Research & Evaluation Hub (TAY-Hub) reports that use linked data from the Employment Development Department (EDD) were updated to include Quarter 4, 2024 data.
  • TAY Cumulative Employment Status by Age
  • TAY Quarters Employed by Age
  • TAY Annual Earnings by Age

Secure Website

• We added an ‘Interval’ option to the charts on the CWS Outcomes workbooks. These charts allow you to examine year-over-year values as before (‘Default’) or select ‘All Interval’ to view 3-month increments, that is, more detail over a shorter overall span. This option does not apply to the ‘Rates’ worksheet, since rates are presented as calendar years only.

• 4-S1 (Public)
• LA County Regional Data Book (Public)
• 4-S1 (Secure)
• LA County CWS Outcomes Workbooks (Secure)
• Safety Dashboard (Secure)