MN has fewer foster kids in 2010, struggles with some permanency goals.

MN has fewer foster kids in 2010, struggles with some permanency goals.

Minnesota placed 11,239 foster children in out-of-home care in 2010, a 4 percent decline since 2009 and a 39 percent decline since 2000, according to the state's annual child welfare report to the legislature. The decline underscores Minnesota's continued success in using family assessments to strengthen families in which abuse or neglect has taken place and to keep children out of the system and safely with their parents.

Note: Now watch, there will be a high profile child death and they'll react by increasing placements by 10% over the next year.