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DCF to visit every child it supervises in person by monthâs end, state officials tell lawmakers
By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated May 4, 2021, 6:06 p.m.
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For the first time since COVID-19 scrambled daily life last year, social workers within Massachusettsâ child welfare agency will resume in-person visits for all of the 40,000-plus children they oversee, state officials said Tuesday, adding that they expect to see each child by monthâs end.
Linda Spears, the commissioner of the Department of Children and Families, announced the policy change, which took effect last week, in response to questions during a wide-ranging legislative oversight hearing into the death of David Almond. The intellectually disabled Fall River teen died in October, and was starved and abused by his father and his fatherâs girlfriend while under the watch of DCF, investigators said.