While front-line caseworkers are to be
spared, the cuts will affect managers and office personnel, many of
whom support the workers making life-or-death decisions. Regier
says he is mostly "identifying efficiencies and reducing overhead,"

Well, there were at least 2 supervisors who should have been terminated.
Rilya's supervisor and the gal on the WC.

Even the office personnel at DYFS acknowledge that DYFS is dysfunctional,
wasteful and out of control.

Ten of the
positions will come from the Sun Coast Region, which covers the Tampa
Bay area.

Region where another child was murdered--due to cw lying on visitation records.

Lawmakers
gave DCF some extra money for child safety, but an amount far less
than what even Regier and Gov. Jeb Bush had said was
needed.

DCF exposed its nature of targeting those families who are presumed to be naive
about the child welfare process. Hence, they inflate their numbers in Lakeland
by chasing *fat* 8 yo boys from a family of big-boned folk.

Unfortunately 20/20's John Stossel poked fun at the dysfunctional DCF.



Florida's reputation
as a dangerous place to be a child at-risk is not helped with these
cuts to management," said Jack

Preschool would help beleagured families more, says researchers.

inadequately
supervised, as evidenced by their continuing - and deadly -

Supervisors are those who get tired of riding around in cars--goofing off.

state supervisors are needed to monitor
contracts and quality.

What qualifications do these folk have to MONITOR CONTRACTS AND QUALITY?




The agency needs more supervisors of
front-line workers, not fewer.

Most likely DCF needs to restructure down to much smaller size--and implement
more effective reforms.

Preschool, drug treatment centers, immigration tracking, for example.

http://www.CPSWatch.com/fl/