Saturday, May 11, 2019

As new leaders take over Maine’s child welfare system, caseworkers say they’re still ‘drowning’

In the 15 or so months since two Maine children died from abuse in their homes despite having had repeated contact with child welfare caseworkers, state leaders have vowed to reform the beleaguered system.

But deployment of those reforms, gleaned from two separate investigations into the department — one of which is still ongoing — after the deaths of 10-year-old Marissa Kennedy and 4-year-old Kendall Chick, have hit bureaucratic snags.

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1 comment:

  1. This just need to stop, they do not do there job at all, they do not know how to protect any child, they do not know how to protect a child in real danger, or a child that came from a good family, they are Hitlers minnoins.

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