Fifth Anniversary of Governor’s Child Protection Task Force

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Next month is the fifth anniversary of the Governor’s Child Protection Task Force.

Its positive impacts include 407 more caseworkers, $215 million in additional revenues, and 14,120 more children getting help.

However, counties haven’t implemented changes recommended for the less enforcement-oriented child protection track known as Family Assessment.  These include to: 

  1. Interview children separately from and prior to adults during initial child protection visits.
  2. Train workers to complete fact-finding before assigning cases to the investigation or Family Assessment track.
  3. Put information in case notes so future workers know what occurred.
  4. Stop giving parents advance notice of a child protection visit.

Without these changes workers can’t get the information they need to protect children.

Five years of inaction leave little alternative but to implement them through legislation.

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