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Upside Down Child Protection

  

Author:
Jane Burstain /(512) 320-0222 x119

February 7, 2011

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In the budget bills for CPS, funding for family-based protective services falls short by 30 percent, or about $51 million. But shorting family-based protective services will not save the state money. It will simply force CPS to send maltreated children who could have stayed safe in their own homes or with relatives into the more expensive alternative of foster care.