After a decline during the pandemic, reports of child abuse and neglect in Pennsylvania are on the rise again — though not reaching pre-pandemic levels yet.
For its latest report, Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children, an advocacy group, dug into five years of data, from 2018 to 2023, to identify trends in how families move through local child welfare systems.
“As stay-home orders were lifted and children began to have more interaction with mandated reporters, the rates of reports have increased,” said Rachael Miller, the partnership’s policy director.