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...case load at 16.9, some workers at the agency's Queens branch put theirs at 25, a number that almost precludes meaningful long-term investigations. "There are no bodies available to do the work," says Bonnie Bufford, a supervisor in a Queens child-protective-services unit. Claims Gail Nayowith, executive director of the Citizens' Committee for Children: "Case loads are rising. Investigations take longer, and some very important programs don't exist . This child and her family should have got services. With appropriate interventions, services and follow-up, [Elisa] would be alive...
...bureaucracy and have trouble dismantling it," says Florida Republican Representative Clay Shaw, "but the states can't keep up with the red tape, the regulations and the reports they have to file." Child advocates disagree. "What do you think it means to cut back on protective services?" asks Gail Nayowith, executive director of the Citizens' Committee for Children in New York. "It's like calling 911 and having the ems dispatcher tell you, 'I'm sorry, but we've already come to your neighborhood once this week. You'll have to wait...
...follow this simple mathematical equation," it read. "For every opening you should have two closings/transfers." But children are not numbers. And their suffering cannot be stopped by bureaucratic fiat. "The system is broken and needs to be fixed, but no one has the political will to do it," says Nayowith. "What possible good does it do to call for the death penalty of the mother, string up the judge and hang the caseworker? After that's all done, the system will remain...
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