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Texas lawmakers look for ways to better help abused children [Star-Telegram.com]

 

It’s time for Texas to step up and do more to protect the state’s most vulnerable people.

That starts with reducing caseloads and boosting salaries for the people who investigate child abuse cases and recommend where those children should live, several local and state officials said Thursday.

“The problems are really huge,” Bruce Capehart, chair of the Child Protective Services Board for Tarrant County, told state lawmakers gathered in Fort Worth. “There will not be a quick or easy solution to all of this.

“But we simply must start.”

This is the latest move to improve the state’s embattled child welfare agency, Texas’ Child Protective Services, that has been under scrutiny for an increase in child abuse and death cases, caseworker turnover, children sleeping in state office buildings, even a court ruling that the foster care system in Texas is “broken.”

Top state officials earlier this year named new leaders to the state agency that oversees CPS and said improving the system geared to help abused children will be a top priority for the 85th Legislature.

[For more of this story, written by Anna M. Tinsley, go to http://www.star-telegram.com/n...article93813137.html]

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