1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Using Data To Help Protect Children and Families Act . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) 4 to 8 children in the United States die every day from abuse or neglect at the hands of their parents or caretakers; (2) according to the 2016 Child Maltreatment report of the Department of Health and Human Services, there were 1,700 fatalities resulting from child maltreatment reported in fiscal year 2016, an increase of 7 percent from the previous year; (3) in 2016, approximately 676,000 children were victims of abuse and neglect; (4) predictive analytics can be used as a tool in helping to identify the children most at risk of maltreatment; (5) harnessing and analyzing administrative data can help to drive better outcomes for children and families, as well as assist child protective service workers in delivering much needed services to children who are most at risk; and (6) we should explore every possible opportunity to do better for our children, and predictive analytics tools provide such an opportunity, if such tools are implemented with appropriate oversights and safeguards. 3. Funding for the development of a predictive analytics pilot program to help children and families who come to the attention of the child welfare system Section 104(e)(3) of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5105(e)(3) ) is amended— (1) by striking The Secretary and inserting the following: (A) In general The Secretary ; (2) by striking of research-based strategies for risk and safety assessments relating to child abuse and neglect and inserting “of— (i) research-based strategies for risk and safety assessments relating to child abuse and neglect; and (ii) the predictive analytics pilot program described in subparagraph (B).