GAO Report: More Work Needs to be Done to Protect Children in theDistrict of Columbia

January 15, 2001 GAO Report: More Work Needs to be Done to Protect Children in the District of Columbia The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) conducted a study and found that despite the implementation of management and programmatic changes, there has not been a significant improvement in the protection of children and the provision of other child welfare services in the District of Columbia.  This conclusion appears in a GAO report titled, District of Columbia Child Welfare, Long-Term Challenges to Ensuring Children's Well-Being, and was released in December 2000. Children in the District's care remain . . .