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Child Welfare: Increased Guidance and Collaboration Needed to Improve DOD's Tracking and Response to Child Abuse

GAO-20-110
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Office of the Secretary of the Navy The Secretary of the Navy should ensure that the Commandant of the Marine Corps develops a process to monitor how reported incidents of child abuse are screened at installations to help ensure that all reported child abuse incidents that should be presented to an Incident Determination Committee are consistently presented and therefore tracked. (Recommendation 9)
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The Navy concurred with this recommendation. In April 2021, the Marine Corps issued Marine Corps Order 1754.11A, which outlines how reported incidents of child abuse are screened at installations. However, it does not include a process for how those screening decisions will be monitored. In January 2024, the Marine Corps stated that it was also developing a process to document the standardized and formalized screening of incidents of child abuse at installations. In July 2024, the Marine Corps stated that it will add a quarterly review of Family Advocacy Program contact logs by headquarters as part of its annual revision to internal certification standards and estimated that the effort would be complete by November 2024. To fully implement this recommendation, the Marine Corps will need to provide documentation that it has established a process to monitor how reported incidents of child abuse are screened at installations. We will continue to monitor the Marine Corps' efforts to address this recommendation and will update its status as more information becomes available.,
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