Kansas Foster Care Case Workers Missed Visits & Failed To Conduct Background Checks

A recent legislative audit found that the Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) foster care case workers failed to always make face-to-face visits with children in foster care, and DCF failed to ensure that background checks were completed for adults in the home for kinship placements. DCF conducts background checks for licensed foster homes. The state's two case management contractors, KVC and St. Francis, are responsible for conducting background checks for relative/ kinship placements. In some cases the contractors did not complete all background checks required by law and for some the quality of the checks . . .