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11 Oct 2007 03:09:49 AM |
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TAMPA - State Child Services Badly Need Repair Report Finds... |
State Child Services Badly Need Repair, Report Finds
By SHERRI ACKERMAN The Tampa Tribune
Published: Oct 11, 2007
http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBDB32OM7F.html
TAMPA - More state oversight of private contractors of foster care and
common-sense safety measures are among recommendations released this
week by a task force created to protect children in state care.
"We live in a state in which crisis is the norm and band-aid solutions
to complex problems a common approach," wrote a 13-member panel in a
preliminary report created to help fix Florida's much-maligned social
services system.
"Florida can no longer react to individual incidents," the panel wrote.
"Instead, we must assure a system of protection and care that is
adequately funded, staffed and professionally competent … ."
Florida Department of Children & Families Secretary Bob Butterworth
created the panel in July after a case hindered by multiple mistakes
allowed a toddler to go missing for nine months.
Wisconsin authorities found 2 1/2 -year-old Courtney Clark in June
living with her mother, who had absconded with the child. An unrelated
child in the home had been tortured and his mother strangled to death
and buried in the backyard.
Courtney became yet another poster child for all that remained wrong
within DCF, an agency dogged for more than three decades by high-profile
disasters that have resulted in numerous attempts to overhaul the system.
The latest effort is ongoing. Task force members, which include a state
attorney, judge, law enforcement officials, child welfare workers and
former foster children, plan to continue meeting for the next year.
"The group has really been listening to people in the community,
workers, experts," said Alan Abramowitz, a task force member and DCF
administrator.
Reports By Phone, Updated Files
Among recommendations called for in the report:
•Identify procedures previously recommended, but not implemented, by DCF
and its private contractors since then-Gov. Jeb Bush created a panel in
2002 in the aftermath of a missing Miami child. Five-year-old Rilya
Wilson has never been found.
Current photographs and fingerprints of every child, along with a DNA
samples, need to be kept on file, the latest task force wrote.
•Change laws that make background screening of caregivers - whether
relatives, nonrelatives or foster parents - uniform.
The group also wants DCF to review its policy of allowing family
friends, coaches or teachers to become caregivers without being licensed
by the state.
•Train law enforcement agencies to file missing-person reports over the
telephone and other common-sense changes that allow agencies statewide
to work together to protect children.
Courtney's Case
Courtney came into state care after her mother was arrested in
Clearwater in February 2006. The girl was returned to her mother's
custody but removed again in July and sent to live with a family friend
in Lake County.
When Courtney turned up missing in October 2006, her Pinellas County
caseworker notified the Lake County Sheriff's Office. The agency refused
to take the report over the telephone, however, causing even longer
delays in Courtney's recovery.
The panel and recommendations in no way change Butterworth's view of
community-based care, he told a Senate committee Oct. 2.
"Make no mistake … Community-based care is improving the way we provide
services to children in Florida."
The panel's final report is expected to be released Nov. 2 in Fort
Myers, where several child tragedies this year prompted the removal of
two top DCF officials.
Reporter Sherri Ackerman can be reached at (813) 259-7144 or
sackerman@tampatrib.com.
CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A
DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NSA / CIA
WIRETAPPING PROGRAM....
CPS Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of Child Protective Services.
every parent should read this .pdf from
connecticut dcf watch...
http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com/8x11.pdf
http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com
Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS
*Perpetrators of Maltreatment*
Physical Abuse CPS 160, Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13
Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS 14 Parents 12
Fatalities CPS 6.4, Parents 1.5
Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that
are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per
100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse
and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the
citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold
parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY
government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and
death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more
human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which
they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that
they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when
children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a
bunch of social workers.
CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT
FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON...
BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...
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