Social workers have too many cases. The state 'anticipates proposing a lower maximum.'
The state is looking to hire an advocate for children. But that's just one position. By comparison, Pa.'s advocate for the elderly has 200 volunteers.
This is part of continuing coverage that explores solutions for Pennsylvania's troubled child protective services system.
Jarrod Tutko lived just nine years, locked inside his feces-covered bedroom with only one item to comfort him: a stuffed bunny.
“It was a house of horrors,” said Sean McCormack, a Dauphin County assistant district attorney at that time..
Jarrod’s death led to the arrest of both his parents on charges of homicide, and it shined a spotlight on the county’s child welfare agency. Social workers from the Dauphin County Office of Children and Youth had been to the home, seen the boy and talked to his parents in the months and years before he died.