Kentucky should focus on strengthening its foster care system, which was brimming last year with a record number of children and teens, instead of seeking to outsource the job to private companies, according to a study commissioned under a 2018 law aimed at overhauling child welfare services.
The “more urgent priority” should be ironing out the system’s current kinks, namely leveling the dramatic discrepancy between services available and the number of children in need of those resources.
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