Almost half of Minnesota’s county child protection directors say they are so short-staffed that they cannot respond to reports of child abuse in the time required by law.
Only 60 percent of counties said they have the staff needed to make monthly visits with children and families in open cases, while 40 percent said they cannot adequately supervise the social workers who manage those cases, according to a survey conducted last month for the Star Tribune.
The survey was conducted in collaboration with the Minnesota Association of County Social Services Administrators to better understand child protection caseloads and turnover rates. The association sent the survey to all child protection agencies in the state’s 87 counties; 66 responded.
[For more of this story, written by Brandon Stahl, go to http://www.startribune.com/lif...ealth/291165681.html]
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