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    • Child Maltreatment 2021

    Metadata Updated: September 7, 2025

    This report presents national data about child abuse and neglect known to child protective services agencies in the United States during federal fiscal year 2021.

    Letter from the Associate Commissioner

    Acknowledgements

    Child Abuse and Neglect Data During the Pandemic

    Summary

    CHAPTER 1: Introduction

    CHAPTER 2: Reports

    CHAPTER 3: Children

    CHAPTER 4: Fatalities

    CHAPTER 5: Perpetrators

    CHAPTER 6: Services

    CHAPTER 7: Special Focus

    APPENDIX A: CAPTA Data Items

    APPENDIX B: Glossary

    APPENDIX C: State Characteristics

    APPENDIX D: State Commentary

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    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date September 7, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 7, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 7, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date September 7, 2025
    Publisher Administration for Children and Families
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://healthdata.gov/api/views/n9ma-xs8r
    Data First Published 2025-09-04
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-05
    Category ACF
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:70
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 2bd1e8ff-d793-4b1a-806f-38f45c6fcdf2
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/d/n9ma-xs8r
    Program Code 009:045
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 86c0fb034f9e8d24d605721786bc0910242263314416684fbf501ada59c3487e
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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