Gov. Jan Brewer said Monday that lawmakers should believe her plan to fix the state’s child welfare system is right “because I’m behind it.”
Read More »Governor asks for nearly $60 million to help solve child welfare problems 
Gov. Jan Brewer is asking for nearly $60 million in a special session to begin May 27 to overhaul the state’s child-welfare agency and to close out a backlog of 14,777 abuse and neglect cases.
Read More »State has boosted CPS budget by more than $240 million in six years 
Lawmakers anxious about the prospect of spending tens of millions of dollars or more on child safety in an upcoming special session have their doubts — for a reason.
Read More »Just following orders: Attorney for fired CPS workers says they were scapegoats 
The attorney for five workers fired from Child Protective Services said today that the report which led to their termination was essentially a pre-determined fix.
Read More »Probe documents allegations of mistakes, deceptions at CPS 
A paper trail uncovered by Department of Public Safety investigators indicates that a small group of Child Protective Services managers tried to keep hidden any public awareness of their setting aside child abuse calls.
Read More »Capitol Quotes: April 25, 2014 
This week's most outstanding quips, gibes and utterances from Arizona's political scene.
Read More »Flanagan provides details on CPS breakdown: “This organization was sick” 
A small group of child welfare workers made a "dysfunctional" decision to set aside child abuse calls to soften their workload and then tried to hide it.
Read More »Brewer signs budget, vetoes several provisions 
Gov. Jan Brewer signed the $9.2 billion budget for fiscal year 2015 budget but line-item vetoed several provisions.
Read More »Unfinished business: Despite budget compromise CPS fight continues 
Gov. Jan Brewer made Child Protective Services the centerpiece of her legislative agenda this year, but after four months of debate, lawmakers sent her a budget that leaves much of the work and funding necessary to create a new child protection agency unfinished.
Read More »Attention turns back to child welfare reforms 
The Capitol community’s attention is turning to the work of a small group of lawmakers and Capitol staffers drafting legislation to create a new child safety and welfare agency, an effort that will require a special legislative session in ...
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