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Social workers and union leaders urge board to address child-welfare staffing, mandatory rotations and leadership failures
Summary
Union and front-line social workers told the Board of Supervisors that child-welfare staff face heavy caseloads, burnout and a punitive rotation policy; they urged the board to require performance improvements for executives and to halt mandatory rotations that, they said, disrupt continuity of care.
Dozens of current and former social workers and representatives from the Orange County Employees Association (OCEA) pressed the Board of Supervisors on March 11 to address workplace culture, high turnover and a mandatory rotation policy inside the county's Children and Family Services (CFS) division.
Union survey and claims: OCEA leaders presented results from a survey of CFS social workers that they said showed widespread dissatisfaction:…
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