Officials: Overwhelmed Child Welfare Case Managers In Phila. Resort To Falsifying Documents

Officials: Overwhelmed Child Welfare Case Managers In Phila. Resort To Falsifying Documents

  

 

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) —  State officials say overworked child welfare case managers in Philadelphia have resorted to falsifying documents, because they cannot keep up with the case loads they’ve been assigned. Case loads have grown as a result of a huge change in the way the city handles child welfare cases, in response to the 2006 starvation death of Danieal Kelly while under city protection.

Though child welfare officials say they think the new system can work, it is currently stretched too thin, with case managers responsible for 13 families at a time, leading to high turnover among workers and, it was disclosed during a public meeting today, occasional falsifying of documents vouching that case workers had made required family visits.

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