New Hampshire Contracts With Eckerd Kids To Review Child Welfare Case Handling

On May 26, 2017, the New Hampshire Department Of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced that they had contracted with Eckerd Kids to review the state’s child welfare case handling. The sole source contract was approved on June 7, 2017. The $82,000 contract began on May 31, 2017 and closes on December 31, 2017 with no initial extension option.

In March, 2016, the director of the DHHS Division of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) was put on leave after closing hundreds of investigations deemed low-risk over two days in February 2016 and suspending normal safety check or . . .