By Greg B. Smith
Last fall, the city’s child welfare agency came under heavy fire for
failing to intervene before 6-year-old Zymere Perkins was beaten to
death in a squalid Harlem apartment caseworkers had visited many times.
In response, the Administration for Children’s Services insisted that
everything was under control, pointing out that caseloads were well
below acceptable maximum levels.
The day before Zymere died,
the average caseload was 9.2 per worker — well below the target of 12
cases ACS had set “based on national best practice standards.”
“Best practice” went out the window in December.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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