Office of Children and Family Services

Accounting for and Contacting Children in Foster Care

New York State’s foster care programs are administered by 58 local social services districts (57 counties and New York City) that are overseen by the Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS). We visited eight local districts outside New York City and performed tests designed to determine whether the districts could readily locate the foster children in their custody, made diligent efforts to find foster children reported as missing, and maintained adequate contact with the foster children in their custody. Based on the results of our tests, we concluded that all eight districts were able to readily locate the children in their custody, made diligent efforts to find missing children, and maintained adequate contact with the children.

For a complete copy of Report 2003-S-35 click here.
For a copy of the 90-day response click here.
For a copy of the associated follow-up report click here.