NY: No Evidence of Pandemic Child Abuse Surge in New York City, But Some See Other Crises For Child Welfare System
Imprint – June 15, 2021
According to state and city data provided to The Imprint by the Administration for Children’s Services on Tuesday, after years of increasing recruitment success, there was a roughly 25% drop in the number of new foster homes certified in the 2020 fiscal year compared to the prior year – from 651 to 486 homes. The current total number of New York City foster homes is now nearly 5,000. The city could not provide previous years’ data by press time Tuesday night. A city spokesman, responding to the foster care capacity concerns, emphasized that the intake shelter’s overall census has declined during the pandemic and length of stay hasn’t increased, on average. Further, the city had built up record capacity prior to the pandemic, with foster home recruitment up 50% between 2017 and 2019, after years of declines.
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