Payments to Foster Care Providers – California

California’s payments to foster-care providers are too low, court rules, By Carol J. Williams, December 14, 2009, Los Angeles Times: “California’s compensation to foster-care providers is so low that it violates a federal child-welfare law, an appeals court ruled Monday. In a case brought by group home administrators caring for about 9,500 wards of the state with special needs, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals deemed the state’s payments of 80% or less of the actual cost of care illegal and insufficient. The case was brought last year by California Alliance of Child and Family Services, which operates more than 100 homes across the state for children who have been deemed unsuitable for foster family placements…”