AB 2462, as introduced, Dababneh. Child welfare services: caseload standards.
Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to convene a stakeholder group to conduct an evaluation of the adequacy of current child welfare services budgeting methodology and to make recommendations for revising the methodology, including appropriate caseload levels, in order to adequately fund the system. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that this stakeholder group include in its next report the core strategies needed to establish minimum caseload standards.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 10609.7 of the Welfare and Institutions
2Code is amended to read:
(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the
4following:
P2 1(1) The department has convened the Child Welfare Services
2Stakeholders Group for the purpose of making recommendations
3to redesign California’s child welfare system to create and sustain
4a flexible system,begin delete comprisingend deletebegin insert comprised ofend insert public and private
5partnerships, that provides a comprehensive system of support for
6families and communities to ensure the well-being of every child.
7(2) In the first year of the
stakeholders group, there was
8significant attention brought to the carrying capacity of direct
9service professionals through the development of an
10implementation plan of child welfare services workload study
11pursuant to Section 10609.5.
12(3) The stakeholders group has convened a series of working
13groups, including the Human Resources Workgroup, whose tasks
14are to develop core strategies and recommendations resulting in a
15high capacity, competent, satisfied child welfare services workforce
16begin insert that isend insert able to perform the essential functions of the redesigned
17child welfare system.
18(4) In the second year, the Human Resources Workgroup report
19found that workload issues have not appreciably declined and that
20for the child welfare services redesign to be successful, workforce
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considerations need to be at the forefront of all redesign efforts.
22(5) The stakeholders group and its Human Resources Workgroup
23have entered the third year of the redesign process for the state’s
24child welfare services.
25(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Human Resources
26Workgroup of the Child Welfare Services Stakeholders Group
27include in its next planned report the core strategies needed to
28establish minimum caseload standards under the redesigned child
29welfare services system for all service areas.
30(c) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Human Resources
31Workgroup also make recommendations for implementing the
32new caseload standards, including a recommendation that would
33achieve at least 20 percent of the caseload reductions annually
34over a specified period of time, as required under the
newly
35recommended standards.
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