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In this episode, we talk to people with firsthand experience with DCS and the foster care system, child advocates and attorneys involved in the 2000 Brian A. lawsuit that helped turn the agency around.
A Republican lawmaker said during a public hearing this week that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is probing the conduct of current and former employees of the Department of Children s Services an investigation a TBI spokeswoman later said she could neither confirm nor deny.
The Tennessee agency that has faced heightened scrutiny for failures in oversight of the state’s most vulnerable children is requesting a quick influx of $26.6 million. The funding requested Monday
The Tennessee Department of Children s Services is seeking an immediate infusion of $26.6 million from the state legislature to address a crisis in care that has left kids sleeping on office floors and in hospital beds because there are no other places for them.