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Although the school told the state Departmentof Social Services (DSS) last winter about theallegations, the state office did nothing aboutthe information, said BB&N's lawyer, Jeff Rudmanof Hale and Dorr. "They expressed no interest inmeeting with us," he said. DSS officials could notbe reached yesterday evening...
Sixty-two percent of court-referred CHINS cases opt for mediation and thus are diverted into the Project, which also services a very small number of cases referred directly by schools, other social service agencies, and the Department of Social Services (DSS...
...Children's Hearing Project is that their actual effectiveness is much more limited than their impressive goals and credentials would suggest. He points out that a large majority of CHINS cases have long histories of experience with social service agencies which "failed to do anything for them. The reason DSS is funding the project is that it [DSS] has failed in this area. It can't handle these kids either. The agencies just let them go. They don't come in for appointments, you have to keep after them all the time, and no service agency is going...
Ripple also said evidence used in the case often predated the existence of DSS. "There were many well-publicized foster care abuses prior to 1980, which is why DSS was created to begin with," he said. He added that "those are the type of examples that were brought before the judge...
...DSS social worker who asked to remain anonymous said in an interview yesterday that worker caseloads were still much too heavy. He added that, "there is just no way we can adequately keep track of every one in our charge. The will is there...