In Los Angeles's agencies for child protection services, there are many cases where they have realized that they have made some mistakes. Therefore, they are trying to get more social workers to work on cases so that the few they have will not be overloaded on cases. By having so many cases and not a lot of social workers working on cases then they are bound to make a mistake. The Department of children and Family Services now see these mistakes and are trying to investigate to see how these mistakes happened and what they can do so that they will not happen again. They are also taking disciplinary action to the 2,300 children's case workers. As a result of the mistakes they are thinking of hiring 19 internal case workers. Also there were 10 cases of death where it could have been stopped if social workers had done their jobs effectively.
This article shows me that social work services especially in Los Angeles need reform because even while children are in their system, they are still dying. Children are being failed due to the fact that social workers are not doing their job and keeping their promise of keeping children safe. In 2008, those 10 deaths of children could have been prevented if social workers would have payed attention to the signs of abuse. They let children slip through and also let them down when they didn't come to their rescue to save them from their parents. By reforming and getting new social workers to help hopefully more children will be saved. They will be able to focus on the number of cases they have and will be able to put more attention on those cases. I also feel that the disciplinary action that is taking place will be good for them because they will realize that they let children down. They will see that their jobs need to be taken more seriously to help children. They will also realize that these little mistakes could have been prevented and those children would not have died if they would have took their time.
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