7:44 p.m. Monday, February 14, 2011
By Craig Schneider
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The recent deaths of four children who had contact with the state child welfare agency has raised questions over the agency’s practice of leaving abused and neglected children in their homes rather than putting them into foster care.
None of the four children were in the state child welfare system when they died; however, all of them or their families had prior contact with the state Division of Family and Children Services, the agency that investigates child abuse and neglect.
Concern was raised against two of the children’s households, but the agency determined that the children were not in sufficient danger to remove them. Instead, the children were left in their homes, a practice called diversion. The agency often offers family assistance in diversion cases. FULL STORY
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