Audit reveals disturbing problems in LA child welfare services
April is National Child Abuse Prevention month. And just this month, the Louisiana State Auditor released a performance audit showing some disturbing problems in our state's child welfare system. "The system is very broken. The foster care system is scary. It's reactive, there's no proactiveness in it whatsoever," Kelli Todd of the Volunteers for Youth Justice (VYJ) told us. The audit of the Department of Children and Family Services reveals some cases were improperly referred to the wrong programs, not all cases were dealt with in a timely manner, and that the caseworkers dealing with children and their families on a daily basis - have too much on their plate.
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