CT HB06282

Requires the select committee on children to maintain an annual report card evaluating state policies and programs that support Connecticut children growing up in stable, safe, healthy environments and ready for successful lives, effective July 1, 2011

Report card shall measure progress using primary indicators including 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, geography, age, and other relevant characteristics

Committee must publish the report card by January 15, 2012, and annually thereafter, making it available to the public on the internet and the General Assembly website, and distributing electronically to relevant legislative committees, state commissioners, and the Child Advocate

Committee shall work with a multi-sector working group to identify or develop secondary indicators measuring children's health, safety, stability, education, and future success, as well as key child welfare system performance measures including maltreatment rates, out-of-home placement rates, child fatalities, reunification rates, and developmental outcomes

Committee must annually review the adequacy of indicators and data resources, and identify child welfare programs making significant contributions to child well-being outcomes that will prepare their own results-based report cards