Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing.
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It will doom thousands of children to the needless trauma of foster care.
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Since they (foster children) never had a parent, they have no place to go.
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It is smart and sensible. It goes to the heart of the key problems Newsday identified in its story Sunday Coordination, training, and a need for more intensive services. It is impressive that the plan to hire new caseworkers doesn't just include investigators who decide whether to take a child out of a home -- it also bolsters a unit designed to help children safely remain in their homes.
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These are the cases in which intense public scrutiny is focused on child welfare agencies. If those agencies can't even do well by these children, imagine what happens to the hundreds of thousands of children, almost all of them anonymous, taken each year and thrown into foster care.
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