Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Utah Child Welfare Audit Is Rather Scathing

This is a scathing audit report on the operations of child and family services of Utah and it is not pretty.

Basically, in 2009 the federal court release the state from its federal monitoring settlement agreement. Funding was increased to improve services and delivery to provide more in-home services to families.

Instead, the child and family services division drastically decreased its in-home services and began to snatch kids and put them in foster care. Once in foster care, the cost of care significantly increased and children lingered longer in the system without reason.

Due to these practices, parents were faced with forced termination of parental rights because of the automatic 12 month rule to place the child into adoption.

Beyond the Title IV-E issues, you have your basic Medicaid, Targeted Case Management fraud as much deals with services.

Utah Performance Audit of The Division of Child and Family Services 2011

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