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Missouri’s child welfare crisis: Are kids falling through the cracks?

Missouri Independent

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Missouri’s child welfare crisis: Are kids falling through the cracks?

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Missouri Independent
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What happens when a child may be in danger, but the people responsible for protecting them are too overwhelmed to respond? That's the question at the heart of a growing crisis inside Missouri's Children's Division. Missouri Independent reporter Steph Quinn joins host Jason Hancock to discuss her investigation into unassigned child abuse reports, mounting backlogs and workers who say a major restructuring has made an already difficult job even harder. They also revisit Steph's reporting on the death of a teenager in foster care and explore why Missouri's child welfare system has struggled with many of the same problems for decades. Are children falling through the cracks? And what will it take to fix a system that seems to lurch from one crisis to the next?