NEW YORK, NY September 30, 2009 —The Administration for Children's Services is showing mixed results when it comes to handling child-abuse-and-neglect reports. That's according to the Mayor's Management report. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez has more.

REPORTER: During the 2009 fiscal year the average number of cases that a child protective worker handles went down to 9 from 11, and workers also did slightly better at responding to reports of abuse and neglect within 24 hours.

At the same time though, the number of repeat abuse and neglect cases was up slightly this year compared to last year. And the number of kids who end up back in foster care within a year of returning home also went up from 11 percent to 14 percent.

Both numbers have been steadily rising since 2001. The Administration for Children's Services says that's partly because overall reports have increased. In addition, the agency says the numbers reflect data from foster care agencies the city dropped because of poor performance. For WNYC, I'm Cindy Rodriguez.