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The former child care investigations director said there are agency-wide communication issues that led to a breakdown in relaying key information, but two of his staff members are the ones who suffered the consequences.
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It was also revealed at a special Texas Senate committee meeting that the Texas foster care worker who allegedly sold nude pictures of girls is also accused of dating a child trafficker.
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Increased oversight and lack of funding mean hundreds of children spend their nights in hotels and churches and on office floors.
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From Texas Standard: While some families in quarantine are spending more time together than ever before, those in the Child Protective Services, or CPS...
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Nearly four years after a federal judge first ruled that Texas violated foster children’s civil rights by placing them in a system where rape and…
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A federal appeals court has ordered Texas to make significant changes to improve its foster care system. A three-judge panel at the Fifth Circuit Court...
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From Texas Standard: Over the last year or so, state lawmakers have taken steps to improve the working conditions of caseworkers at the Texas Department...
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Gov. Greg Abbott signed four child welfare bills into law on Wednesday, measures that aim to recalibrate how the Texas Department of Family and Protective…
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The Texas House on Thursday passed the last bill in a package of sweeping measures aimed at addressing a crisis in the state's child welfare system. After…
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As Texas Department of Family and Protective Services officials continue investigating the death of a girl who escaped a Child Protective Services office,…
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Gov. Greg Abbott has declared the state’s child welfare system as an emergency item in the current legislative session. But tied to that is a problem…
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From Texas Standard : Earlier this month state officials granted Child Protective Services (CPS) an emergency request to give the agency an additional ...