CT HB05346

Establishes an annual report card (first due January 15, 2011, then annually) evaluating state policies and programs promoting child well-being in areas of stable living environments, safety, health, and educational readiness.

Primary indicators include child abuse rates, child poverty, low birth weight, third-grade reading proficiency, and the annual social health index, with data broken down by ethnicity, race, gender, and geography.

Report card must be made publicly available on the General Assembly website and distributed electronically to appropriations and human services committees, Commissioners of Children and Families, Education and Public Health, the Child Advocate, and other state officials.

Requires the select committee on children to work with state agencies, community organizations, providers, parents, and advocacy groups to identify secondary indicators and performance measures for child welfare system outcomes including maltreatment rates, out-of-home placements, fatalities, reunification rates, and child developmental progress.

Directs the select committee to annually review indicator adequacy and identify child welfare programs making significant contributions to child well-being, requiring those programs to prepare results-based accountability report cards.