Post by Logan on Jun 17, 2016 3:07:28 GMT -6
Audit finds NYC Administration for Children’s Services fails to perform check-ins, skips domestic violence evaluations
The city agency in charge of protecting kids routinely fails to conduct required check-ins at troubled homes, often skips domestic violence evaluations, and doesn’t have a handle on staffing, a new audit found.
Controller Scott Stringer, whose office conducted the Administration for Children’s Services audit, said the findings are particularly disturbing because the agency has overseen 30 cases in the past decade in which kids have died from abuse.
Among the most recent of those cases was 4-year-old Myls Dobson, who was beaten, starved and burned in the weeks before his 2014 death in a Manhattan apartment.
“After years of horror stories about children dying under their care and pledges by ACS to reform itself, our audit uncovered an unchanged agency, rife with mismanagement and bureaucratic inaction,” Stringer said.
Read more: www.nydailynews.com/new-york/audit-shows-major-failures-nyc-children-services-agency-article-1.2676451
The city agency in charge of protecting kids routinely fails to conduct required check-ins at troubled homes, often skips domestic violence evaluations, and doesn’t have a handle on staffing, a new audit found.
Controller Scott Stringer, whose office conducted the Administration for Children’s Services audit, said the findings are particularly disturbing because the agency has overseen 30 cases in the past decade in which kids have died from abuse.
Among the most recent of those cases was 4-year-old Myls Dobson, who was beaten, starved and burned in the weeks before his 2014 death in a Manhattan apartment.
“After years of horror stories about children dying under their care and pledges by ACS to reform itself, our audit uncovered an unchanged agency, rife with mismanagement and bureaucratic inaction,” Stringer said.
Read more: www.nydailynews.com/new-york/audit-shows-major-failures-nyc-children-services-agency-article-1.2676451