CHILD A look at the strengths and challenges of Pennsylvanias child-welfare system and the safety of at-risk children
SPECIAL REPORT: STATE OF THE CHILD
Pennsylvanias child-welfare system is broken.
Despite a major overhaul of state child-welfare laws in 2013-15, the people charged with overseeing the safety of at-risk children say those children are no safer now than they were before the changes.
2016: BY THE NUMBERS
$ 1.8 46 79 BILLION
child deaths in child near-deaths in spent on protecting
Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania's kids
CHILD ABUSE REPORTS
percentage increase ERIE 19% * between 2014 and 2016 MONROE CRAWFORD CENTRE 60% 39% 27% LUZERNE 63% 65% ALLEGHENY BUCKS DAUPHIN 49% 78% CAMBRIA PHILADELPHIA FAYETTE 20% 17% 28% YORK 34% DELAWARE 34%