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Posted: 10:27 PM Mar 11, 2010
Child Welfare Reviewed After Colorado Deaths
Colorado lawmakers have are considering increased oversight of its child welfare system following the deaths of 35 children under its care over the past three years.
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Colorado lawmakers have are considering increased oversight of its child welfare system following the deaths of 35 children under its care over the past three years.
Under legislation approved Thursday by the Senate Health & Human Services Committee, the child protection ombudsman office would be set up as an independent office in the state Department of Human Services. The bill now goes to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Gov. Bill Ritter ordered a review of the system two years ago following the deaths of 13 children who had been involved in the child welfare system in 2007. Eleven more died in both 2008 and 2009.
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Posted by: D
on Mar 12, 2010 at 10:14 AM
35 deaths and they finally decide to do something. Way to be on the ball with things.
Posted by: Anonymous
Location: Colo Spgs
on Mar 12, 2010 at 10:09 AM
Though I agree that caseworkers should be held responsible, it is unreal to believe that parents should always keep their children. If my sister would have kept her daughters, they would be DEAD too. Thankfully, good case workers intervened and my sister and her abusive husband had their rights terminated. I think Colorado is even LAX when it comes to keeping kids away from dangerous parents. What about the kids who are abused and/or killed AFTER they are RETURNED to their parents? The laws need to change to better protect the CHILD. They have rights too. Colorado just hasn't caught up to that idea yet. They need to specify in this "death report" how many children died under the foster care system and how many died because they were left in the home. This report just says "under the eye of the welfare system." So many kids are left in dangerous situations because CO's goal is to "return to the biological parent" often to the detriment of the child!
Posted by: Anonymous
on Mar 12, 2010 at 08:13 AM
Following the "deaths" like they died of natural causes. Someone murdered these babies, someone who was supposed to keep them safe. They need to say after the "MURDER" of 35 children under its care. Tragic something has to change NOW!!!!!
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