Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and particularly its Office of Child and Family Services division has been under fire for years.
Lawmakers pointed to a report showing the Department of Health and Human Services is getting worse at preventing repeated abuse and neglect of children.
A Republican state lawmaker said the state’s top social services agency “deserves all the scrutiny we can muster” in light of a Maine Monitor investigation that found eight people in public guardianship died under unusual circumstances. In the.