In some state reviews they say that caseworkers failed to protect children's safety. They did not check the background of the parents and they also closed cases that should have not been closed because children may have still being abused. Foster care agencies also failed to do background checks on foster parents and because of this children have died. For these mistakes, they are trying to improve the system in which children are supposed to be protected. The Office for Children and Families and the state are also trying to get better training for caseworkers in order to also better the agency as a whole. With the new alternative-response program they are trying to find ways to lesson the abuse children face and get them into safer homes. Another change that will happen is that caseworkers will be informed when the fingerprints of suspected abusive parents is connected to a crime so that they children will be taken out of their care and into the foster care system.
The changes that are supposed to happen is a good start to trying to improve the system of CPS. If caseworkers start to actually check backgrounds not only foster parents but also the biological parents, children will be safer. By having these background checks done regularly, social workers will be able to see whether the child is safe in their home. This will ensure the children that they are safely protected and are in a place where they will not be harmed. Better training for social workers is also a good idea because they will know how to handle certain situations that they were probably not put in before. They will have that prior experience and knowledge to know how it should be dealt with and will know how it will affect the child. Therefore, child protection agencies are stepping up and trying to reform the agency and make it better for the safety of children.
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