Definition: The percentage of all substantiated child reports for the fiscal year that include a substantiated allegation from one of four groups (see The Groups below).
Denominator: Number of substantiated reports.
Numerator: Number of reports containing a substantiated allegation for the given allegation group.
Amended allegation findings were used in place of the original findings when applicable.
Special Note: There is not a one-to-one relationship between substantiated allegations and substantiated reports; each substantiated report can include more than one substantiated allegation. Therefore, adding together the percentages of all four groups in these charts (for any given year and population) will likely result in a number greater than 100.
The Groups
The substantiated allegation groups represented are as follows:
The Neglect group includes all substantiated Lack of Supervision, Environmental Neglect and Other Neglect allegations.
The Physical and Other Abuse group includes all substantiated Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse and Substance Exposure allegations.
The Sexual Abuse / Human Trafficking group includes all substantiated Sexual Abuse and Human Trafficking allegations.
The Risk of Harm group includes all substantiated Substantial Risk of Physical Injury / Environment Injurious to Health and Welfare allegations.
The data used to compute this measure come from the DCFS Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), and these data were extracted on December 31, 2024. All indicators are calculated based on the state fiscal year, which spans the 12-month period from July 1 to June 30. They were calculated based on the state fiscal year, which spans the 12-month period from July 1 to June 30.
A Note on Totals
The per-year totals for this measure ("ALL CHILDREN") reflect the total numbers of children with valid values for the breakdown being viewed. Since counts may be culled from records missing geographic, demographic or placement type information, totals between breakdowns may not be identical. For example, adding counts for all age groups for a given year may not produce the same result as adding races, since there may be missing races and/or ages in the population.
A Note on Race
If the child’s ethnicity was coded as any of the following Hispanic origin, their race/ethnicity was coded as Latinx regardless of their race code: Hispanic South American, Hispanic Cuban, Hispanic Mexican, Hispanic Puerto Rican, Hispanic Spanish Descent, Hispanic Dominican, Hispanic Central American, and Hispanic Other. If the child’s ethnicity was non-Latinx and they had more than one race code, then their race/ethnicity was defined as multiracial. If the child’s ethnicity was non-Latinx and the value of the race is Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islanders, or multiracial, it was coded as "Other." If the value of primary race was "could not be verified," "unknown," "declined to identify," or missing (null), it was treated as missing and excluded when indicators are reported by race/ethnicity.
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