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    OCS 1.3 Abuse/Neglect Child Fatalities: Children in DFPS Conservatorship FY2014-FY2024

    Metadata Updated: February 25, 2025

    The injuries that led to the child's death may have been sustained prior to DFPS being granted to legal custody. For example, in Fiscal Year 2016 six children died while in DFPS Conservatorship (five while in Foster Care). However, four of these children sustained the injuries that led to their death prior to being placed in DFPS custody.

    This chart includes child fatalities investigated and confirmed by Child Protective Investigations, Day Care Investigations, and Residential Child Care Investigations, and Adult Protective Services. Fatality information does not include corrections or updates, if any, that may subsequently be made to DFPS data after fiscal year end.

    Only Children in DFPS Legal Responsibility (Conservatorship) are included. You can further filter to see how many were in Foster Care at the time of death.

    The Adult Protective Provider Investigations division was tranferred to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) in Fiscal Year 2018.

    This dashboard addresses Texas Family Code Section 264.017, Subsection (b) (4) and (5).

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. See Terms License: No license information was provided.

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    Metadata Created Date August 25, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date February 25, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from City of Austin Data.json

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    Metadata Updated Date February 25, 2025
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    Data First Published 2024-02-12
    Data Last Modified 2025-02-04
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