One week after news reports that Child Protective Services isn’t promptly seeing thousands of endangered children, Gov. Greg Abbott issued an edict to the agency Wednesday: Get your act together.
In a letter to Department of Family and Protective Services Commissioner Hank Whitman — whose agency runs Child Protective Services — Abbott told his appointee that it is “completely unacceptable” that the state is not making timely visits to children believed to be in immediate danger of abuse or neglect.
In mid-September, more than 14,000 kids across the state, one-third of those with open CPS cases, had not been seen by child abuse investigators between 24 and 72 hours after a report of abuse, the state-mandated time frame in which caseworkers must see children. Of those, nearly 2,000 were considered urgent cases, meaning the children could have been in immediate danger.
In Travis County, 42 percent of about 2,900 children had not been seen by the deadline...
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