Summit County joins statewide child-welfare data system

Summit County joins statewide child-welfare data system

Summit County Children Services will make the switch today to a new, $92 million statewide child-welfare computer system that once had been the target of severe criticism because of numerous glitches.
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The system was designed so child-welfare reports and statistics are uniform throughout Ohio, and to allow instant access to statewide records for busy caseworkers. But when the first counties started signing on, there were reports of caseworkers not knowing where a child was because the system crashed and of private adoption information being given out inappropriately.