328,947 children were in foster care on September 30, 2024. Federal auditors found nearly half of children who went missing from care were never reported to the national missing-children center, and more than 9,000 slept in hotels, offices or other unsafe places. This briefing maps child welfare in every state and shows how BB2G audits the systems, the money and the data that are supposed to protect them.
States are shaded by child maltreatment victims per 1,000 children. Each glow is a documented data breach, court finding, audit or unsafe placement; red marks children's data exposed or children harmed. Rates depend partly on how each state defines and counts maltreatment.
National audits and recent state findings, newest first.
The audit covers every system that holds a child's record, every place a child sleeps, and every dollar paid to keep them safe, in each state and nationally.
The state's child welfare case management system, its vendors and every user account.
AFCARS and NCANDS reports: what the state tells Washington and whether it matches reality.
Every foster home, group home, residential facility, hotel and office night.
Title IV-E, Family First and provider contracts, traced from award to the child.
Court reports, review boards and the systems that store them.
Schools, Medicaid, child support and benefits systems that hold the same child's data.
Federal law already requires missing foster children to be reported quickly. BB2G turns the requirements into checks that can't be skipped.
When a child goes missing, reports to NCMEC and law enforcement are tracked against the federal 24-hour deadline, with alerts before it passes.
Each night's placement is recorded; a hotel or office night is flagged to leadership the same day.
Every abuse or neglect allegation has a clock, and overdue investigations go to the top.
Provider payments are matched to children actually served and outcomes reached.
No child's identity in the oversight layer; only lawful aggregates leave the agency.
Missing and trafficked-child cases link to ATRC and The Shield Project's prevention work.
A child's case moves from hotline to investigator, court, placement, school, doctor and back. At 95% per handoff, the chain holds only 36% of the time. Move the sliders.
With BB2G, every handoff is confirmed; a check catches 99% of dropped or wrong handoffs and alerts a named person.
Rank 1 has the most child maltreatment victims per 1,000 children (HHS Child Maltreatment). Select a column to re-sort.
Documented child welfare data breaches, federal audits and court findings, newest first, each linked to its source. No child is named.
Child maltreatment rate, children in foster care (FY2022) and every documented incident or finding in each jurisdiction.
How children are lost in the system, and the controls that catch it.
Read-only first, then the checks that keep children found.
Authorize a read-only audit of placements, missing-child reporting and provider payments in one region.