The Department of Child Safety is more than two months late in releasing its latest report, which under state law must be done quarterly.
As part of increased legislative funding, the department was required to provide quarterly reports to a legislative committee including data on current child abuse and neglect investigations, staff retention and other measures of performance.
State Rep. Debbie McCune Davis, D-Phoenix, is a member of the review committee and said the agency has been consistently late filing its reports.
"The consequences come when the agency continues to report numbers that show they are in crisis," McCune Davis said. "We want to see numbers that show that resources given to the agency are resulting in better outcomes for kids. The reports are the mechanisms by which we see that."
The reports also detail how the agency spends its $800 million budget.
A statement from the department DCS said it is working on the report and hopes to have it done shortly. The next quarterly report is due at the end of this month.
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