this is sad. why do these kids get overlooked when they are the ones who need the help the most. The system needs to do more. Is it a matter of funding or better training needed?

This really shouldn’t happen in this day and age. Terrible statistics for an agency which has been set up to help children.

I imagine it is because there is a shortage of staff, not enough funding, Government cuts – all red tape and bureaucratic bullshit – that affects real people’s lives. No passing the buck. DOCS and the Government just need to take responsibility. The evidence is usually there, in hindsight, that more should have been done. Do it.

There is probably a serious shortage of staff to investigate the reports. I know a lady who worked in the same field in another state. She often investigated cases out of hours when she was supposed to have gone straight afterwards. She didn’t have use of a Govt. car a/h. either. Some parents won’t take their children to hospital after hours if they are ill enough to need to go. One child in particular was asthmatic and almost died on a few occasions. The lady called and cancelled a few outings with us and others because of investigating what she conidered to be extremely urgent, including some that weren’t in the area she was allocated.

I also pray and hope that some serious changes are made and things charge for the better and soon.

So sad that some children are taken off their parents in a supposed effort to protect them and they are put into much worse situations. It’s called care they are meant to be cared for. This is so sad. I understand there are plenty of instances where children need to be taken away from parents but what’s the point if they end up somewhere worse.

These statistics are very, very concerning.

dhs cps have never bothered to worry about the at risk kids near us, after 9 years and multiple reports they have only now started to look out for them. Too little too late