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Over objections, Senate gives preliminary approval to new Department of Child Safety
The Senate gave preliminary approval to Gov. Jan Brewer’s proposal to create a new child safety department over objections from some Republican lawmakers who were outraged by the level of new spending being appropriated without the accountability measures they desired.
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.
Team poring over uninvestigated CPS cases finds most are routine
The team assigned to check on the safety of children associated with abuse calls that went without investigation has found no “significant’’ cases after seeing more than 2,000 children in the first month of work.
Child abuse records found near dumpster unrelated to larger CPS investigation
Thousands of pages of confidential records of child abuse cases found last month outside a dumpster are unrelated to the discovery that more than 6,500 complaints went uninvestigated, the head of the Department of Economic Security said Monday.
Arizona child welfare agency cutting basic services
Basic services for families are being cut at Arizona's child welfare agency as it tries to adjust to a multi-million dollar budget shortfall and documents obtained by the Arizona Republic show budget problems threaten to limit supervised visits between parents and their children.
