Child Protective Services workers 'taking short cuts,' review shows
Child Protective Services caseworkers spend too little time with abused children's families to properly evaluate risks in the homes, according to an internal review of Houston cases that was released Monday.
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CPS review of Houston cases targets caseworkers
Review: CPS Inconsistent with Policies
We actually had a caseworker fabricate a home visit report out of thin air.
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Funny how she was able to determine all that from her desk.
I found out about the fraudulent report and threatened to turn her in to authorities for falsifying state files, but her supervisor removed the report and destroyed the evidence, and told me over the phone in advance that she was going to do so.
The "excuse" was that the caseworker had been out sick, was overextended, blah, blah, blah.
She still has her job, by the way, and so does the supervisor who covered for her.