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This 9 page paper discusses the status and efficiency of the Florida Foster care program. Examples, shortcomings, facts, figures, examined, conclusions drawn. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Florida Department of Children and Families(Channel 12 WJKS, 2004). Every year, it would seem, more and more children slip through the cracks, entangled inexorably in a bureaucratic system
that fails to protect them from harm. In Florida, alone, nearly a thousand children a year are lost in the social services system for various reasons. An examination of their
organization promises to offer some explanation of how these children became lost, why the system lost track of them in the first place, and what sorts of inadequacies in the
structure of the organization may have led to the inefficiency of the agency. ACCESSIBILITY Florida Department of Children and Families figures prominently in any foster care situation within the
state of Florida. When one is researching any facet of the child welfare system in that state, one is generally directed toward this agency. It did not take a lengthy
exploration of their records to realize that this is the proverbial leaky vessel. The Florida Department of Children and Families is accessible by various means. They maintain a website:
http://www.state.fl.us/cf_web/ which is quite comprehensive. The agency also publishes several reports a year which indicate both strengths and weaknesses for that quarter and what is being done, or what needs
to be done to improve various perceived problems. Unfortunately, it must be said, that from what one can tell, the report is very good at nailing down the problems, but
the implementation, funding, and solutions are not as forthcoming. POLICIES AND PROCEDURES One good example of how the Florida Department of Children and Families is shortsighted is in their
implementation of their various policies. The policies, in themselves, are commendable. One policy states that the case worker will visit every month in the foster home to assess whether the
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