Report 2010-121 Recommendation 4 Responses

Report 2010-121: Foster Family Home and Small Family Home Insurance Fund: Expanding Its Coverage Will Increase Costs and the Department of Social Services Needs to Improve Its Management of the Insurance Fund (Release Date: September 2011)

Recommendation #4 To: Social Services, Department of

To mitigate foster parents’ concerns about liability and to increase the likelihood that they will continue to serve as foster parents, Social Services should develop more effective methods to inform and remind licensed homes about the availability of the insurance fund.

60-Day Agency Response

Social Services issued a memo on September 28, 2011, instructing its Community Care Licensing Division (licensing division) program analysts to provide foster parents with General Services’ insurance fund handout during the pre-licensing visit. In addition, Social Services posted the insurance fund information on the licensing division’s Web site on October 20, 2011. Finally, Social Services included the insurance fund information in the licensing division’s fall 2011 Children’s Residential Quarterly Update Newsletter. (See 2012-406, pp. 107-108)

California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Fully Implemented

All Recommendations in 2010-121

Agency responses received after June 2013 are posted verbatim.