In the Senate Health and Welfare Committee’s April 15, 2026 discussion of Senate Bill 265 regarding the proposed abolishment of DCFS, we heard that Louisiana is “only one of seven states that has a standalone department of children and family services.” Having followed child welfare matters across the country for several decades, that statement did not sound like an accurate…
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While reading this morning’s news reports about child welfare among the states, the following struggles seem to be the most significant and common problems of child welfare agencies around the country. 1. First is the problem of children being removed from parents and placed into foster care for reasons of neglect because removal is a state child welfare system’s obvious…