DCF Shifts To Less Adversarial Approach

By JOSH KOVNER, jkovner@courant.com
1:39 p.m. EST, February 9, 2012
Hartford Courant

HARTFORD, Connecticut -- The state Department of Children and Families will no longer investigate relatively minor reports of neglect as part of a shift away from its traditional adversarial approach. Instead, it will offer help to the family. The less serious reports make up 40 percent of DCF's caseload. FULL STORY

This story is just crying for a comment from me.  But then again, what I would have to say is pretty obvious.  Isn't it?