Children’s Rights: Thousands of young lives endangered due to lack of oversight within child welfare agency

Children’s Rights: Thousands of young lives endangered due to lack of oversight within child welfare agency

A massive review of Massachusetts foster care shows that nearly one in five children who have been in state care for at least two years have suffered confirmed abuse or neglect — all while in the custody of the state Department of Children and Families (DCF), according to one of five reports issued by independent child welfare policy experts and released today by national advocacy group Children’s Rights and local counsel.