§ 426 — Annual reports

§ 426. Annual reports. The commissioner shall prepare for inclusion in\nthe annual report required by subdivision (d) of section seventeen of\nthis chapter to be filed with the governor and the legislature prior to\nDecember fifteenth of each year, a report on the operations of the state\ncentral register of child abuse and maltreatment and the various local\nchild protective services. The report shall include a full statistical\nanalysis of the reports made to the central register together with a\nreport on the implementation of this title, his or her evaluation of\nservices offered under this chapter and his or her recommendations for\nadditional legislation to fulfill the purposes of this title. Such\nreport shall indicate the number of child abuse and maltreatment reports\nand cases received by the statewide central register of child abuse and\nmaltreatment by each district in the preceding year, the number of such\ncases determined to have been indicated and the number of such cases\ndetermined to be unfounded by each district in the preceding year, the\nnumber of such cases which have not been indicated or unfounded within\nthe time period required by subdivision seven of section four hundred\ntwenty-four of this article by each district in the preceding year and\nthe number of workers assigned to the child protective service in each\ndistrict in the preceding year. Such report shall include, among other\ninformation, available demographic information and available information\nconcerning the racial and ethnic characteristics of the family members\nand persons served by the differential response program pursuant to\nsection four hundred twenty-seven-a of the social services law, as well\nas available information concerning the racial and ethnic\ncharacteristics of the family members and persons serviced under the\ntraditional child protective services program, in each local social\nservices district in the state.\n