congregate care; dependent children; procedures

This Arizona bill requires the state child welfare department to publish detailed data on its operations and outcomes on its website every six months. The new reporting rules cover a wide range of metrics, including caseload sizes, investigation results, foster home availability, and specific statistics on children in congregate care settings. The department must provide this information in a downloadable format that breaks down data by region, age, ethnicity, and other categories to allow for public analysis. Ultimately, the legislation aims to increase transparency by making the department's performance and the status of dependent children more visible to the public.