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From Texas Standard: After reports that Child Protective Services caseworkers have let thousands of children at risk for abuse and neglect slip through…
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On any given day in the last six months, nearly a thousand of Texas' "highest-priority" children — considered by the state to be at immediate risk of…
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From Texas Standard:Texas began a strategic plan to reform the foster care system in 2014, but the overhaul is still in the early stages of rollout. The…
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From Texas Standard:The Texas foster care system is not perfect. We’ve all heard stories about children bouncing around from one foster placement to…
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From Texas Standard:Many nights – somewhere in a Texas Child Protective Services office – there's a child sleeping, tucked in somewhere among the desks…
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If you dropped your child off at day care this morning, you likely left them with a regulated provider. That means they have to follow a bunch of state…
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From Texas Standard:If you’re the church-going type, you’ve probably heard hundreds – maybe thousands – of sermons throughout your life. You probably…
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From Texas Standard:In recent weeks there have been reports of the crumbling infrastructure of the state’s Child Protective Services – an agency…
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The state agency in charge of preventing and investigating child abuse in Texas is in turmoil. Child Protective Services recently lost a slew of…
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Daniel Hernandez, an investigator for the state’s Child Protective Services agency, left his South Austin home at dawn on a recent Thursday holding a…