The Department of Children and Families is still working to develop an information system that can provide the data needed to determine if it is taking appropriate and adequate measures to prevent further harm to abused and neglected children. The department planned to implement the needed component to its HomeSafenet information system by October 2002. However, its implementation has been put on hold. Until the department puts the Child Safety Assessment component in place and conducts appropriate data verification, it will lack data needed to assess the effectiveness of its administrative review process. As a result and more than three years later, the Legislature continues to lack assurance that its mandate that the department closely examine at-risk children is having the intended effect.