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Child Welfare Agency Avoids Receivership
7th of October 2008
The District’s Child & Family Services Agency (CFSA) has temporarily avoided a return to federal court oversight in the wake of highly publicized and tragic cases involving the death of several children.
An October 7 Washington Post article by Petula Dvorak announces a brokered settlement between the District and the advocacy group Children’s Rights, which brought a motion of contempt in July.
THE DISTRICT’S embattled child welfare agency agreed yesterday to a list of conditions in a court arrangement meant to prevent its slide back into federal receivership, according to court documents. The Child and Family Services Agency must reduce its swelling backlog of investigations open longer than 30 days, move dozens of children toward adoption and find replacements for this year’s exodus of social workers.
Continue to read the Post’s story here