The hotel heiress testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday about protecting children in foster care.
Paris Hill gave her opening statement Child Welfare Programs saying, "I am here to be the voice for the children whose voices can't be heard. While this committee has a responsibility to move bipartisan solutions for, to protect them, I strongly advocate for the reauthorization of title four B. Families need resources and support so they don't need to come into the child welfare system in the first place.
More than a dozen states don't track when multiple abuses happen at a single facility or across facilities owned by the same company, the HHS OIG report found. Federal taxpayers spend billions of dollars on foster care for thousands of children around the country. Some children are placed with families in homes or with their relatives. The most expensive care, which can cost hundreds of dollars a day or more, involves a residential treatment facility — essentially a group home for children. Those children sometimes have complex medical or behavioral needs.
Those public reports were detailed in the Senate Finance Committee's investigation released earlier this month.
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