While the following does not deal directly with Guardians ad litem it does show that government will enact change if there are issues with a system. In this case Child Protective Services was deemed to be so broken that repairing its parts would not correct the problem. That a complete overhaul was needed. In Canada we are seeing the same thing with their Family Court system.
KANU Public Radio
Gov. Jan Brewer has made an executive order to shut down the agency that oversees the state’s Child Protective Services. As Arizona Public Radio’s Ryan Heinsius reports, the order comes after at least a year of widespread mismanagement at CPS.
Yesterday, the governor announced the dissolution of the Department of Economic Security Division of Children, Youth and Families.
CPS services will now be handled by the newly created Division of Child Safety and Family Services, a stand-alone department within DES. The former agency is under scrutiny because of thousands of child abuse and neglect cases that were reported but never investigated.
Full story: KANU Public Radio
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