Monitor Finds D.C. Out Of Compliance With LaShawn A. Children’s Services Settlement Agreement

The District Of Columbia Child & Family Services Agency (CFSA) is out of compliance with some of the key terms of the long-running LaShawn A. settlement agreement. The most recent monitor’s report, which was released in December 2015, reported that between April and June 2015 CFSA housed 11 foster children temporarily in agency offices and four in motels because no foster homes were available, in a repeat of a problem that had previously been fixed. The monitor, he Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP), said CFSA’s placement problems continued into the second half of the . . .