Federal court monitors found several DFPS investigations in which the state failed to protect children from safety risks, including a lack of medication monitoring and exposing children to trafficking.
he was appointing Stephanie Muth, a consultant and former Medicaid director at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, to replace Masters.
Since the last report, DFPS has decreased the percentage of CPS caseworkers with overburdened workloads and improved the quality of investigations led by DFPS. Between January and June 2022, 13% fewer CPS employees had caseloads that exceeded 17 children per worker. The monitors asked whether the agency is “adequately protecting children from a serious risk of harm” when it continues to house children in temporary, unlicensed settings. “Based upon the monitors’ review of DFPS investigations of [children without placement] settings over the past 18 months, the answer frequently is no,” the report read.
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