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Children's Services reports lower turnover, outlines budget requests including foster-care modernization
Summary
Commissioner Margie Quinn told the committee March 5 that DCS has reduced case-manager turnover and opened clinical assessment beds, and outlined budget requests that include raising foster-care extension age to 23 and adjustments tied to the Brian A. settlement.
Department of Children's Services Commissioner Margie Quinn told the Finance, Ways and Means Committee on March 5 that the agency has reduced staff turnover and is pursuing a set of budget items intended to modernize foster-care services and strengthen child-protection infrastructure.
Quinn said the agency's 12-month case-manager turnover rate has fallen to 11.9 percent for the first seven months of the current fiscal year, down from 16.9 percent last year and 20.7 percent in 2023. She said the agency's open case-manager positions fell from 692 at…
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