Number: RL32849
Title: Child Welfare Financing: An Issue Overview
Authors: Emilie Stoltzfus, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: The purpose of this report is to describe the federal interest in child welfare (as expressed by Congress); describe the current level and structure of federal dedicated child welfare financing and examine trends in the appropriation and spending of this money; and to review the extent to which states rely on non-dedicated federal funds for child welfare purposes. Finally, the report discusses the future federal commitment to child welfare financing, along with the concepts of flexibility and accountability, as these relate both to current law and to recent proposals to alter federal child welfare financing.
Pages: 67
Date: April 6, 2005