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New Office of Health and Social Services Ombudsman outlines role, staffing and priorities
Summary
Trevor Sparrow, newly appointed ombudsman, and LSO analysts described the office’s mandate to receive complaints about foster care and other residential services, its initial staffing of three FTP positions and a request for higher personnel funding to attract qualified hires.
Trevor Sparrow, the newly appointed ombudsman for the Office of Health and Social Services Ombudsman, introduced the office’s mission to the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on Jan. 15 and described how the agency will accept complaints, investigate them and make recommendations to state agencies that provide health and social services for children.
Sparrow said the office primarily will focus on the foster care system but, as the enabling statute allows, can investigate situations involving children housed in residential…
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