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Reform Order of Dept. of Human Services
Posted by familycourtreform06 on January 27, 2008
by KYW’s Steve Tawa
Mayor Nutter has signed an executive order that renews the charter for an independent community oversight board to monitor reform efforts within the often criticized Department of Human Services.
Board co-chair Carol Spigner says 14-of-21 recommendations have been completed in improving the DHS system to protect children from abuse and neglect. But she says there are challenges:
“The first is monthly face to face contact with children.”
Acting DHS commissioner Arthur Evans cites 80 vacancies among social workers with heavy caseloads.
Mayor Nutter says DHS workers don’t get the same kind of recognition for saving lives that police and firefighters rightly receive:
“They are really good, committed people, who do these jobs that many of us would shudder, if we had to listen to or interact with some of the things that people to do children and to each other.”
City officials say children known to DHS are ’safer today than they were a year ago,’ because of their aggressive reform agenda.
http://www.kyw1060.com/pages/1539515.php?contentType=4&contentId=1458655
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