Finding F2.4
FFAs’ inability to pay expensive liability premiums may cause more closures. Unless additional government funding is available to help FFAs pay for liability insurance, more FFAs may be forced to stop supporting resource families. When this happens, children placed with the FFAs’ foster families will have to be transferred to another foster family or to a DCFS foster family, causing more trauma for the children and straining the foster care system. Although FFAs are outside of this Committee’s jurisdiction, our concern is that a critical link in the foster care system may be in jeopardy if the FFAs’ inability to pay insurance premiums causes more FFAs to close their resource family operations.
Jury report: Los Angeles County Foster Care · PDF page 132
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Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (consolidated County departmental response)
County agrees with finding on insurance premiums, potential FFA closures and placement disruption, without elaboration.
Read official response · PDF page 18Explicit agreement supplies a position and requires no disagreement explanation. The bare agreement adds no substantive discussion of the finding, concrete reasoning or checkable support. Report physical PDF page(s) 132; County response physical PDF page(s) 18. Claims remain attributed; adoption date is not a filing or receipt date.
This review evaluates the response document. Implementation claims have not been independently verified.