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Editorial: Don’t shortchange lifeline for abused children

By 04/16/2017 | updated 8 years ago

There were more than 1,000 reported instances of child abuse or neglect in Larimer County in 2016.

In the same year, 43 percent of the county’s roughly 90 caseworkers left their jobs. Compare that with a turnover rate of 12 percent in Weld County and 14 percent in Boulder County.

Put the two data points together – more than 1,000 cases and nearly 50 percent turnover – and the county faces a serious problem, as recent reporting from the Coloradoan helped illustrate.

Read more at The Fort Collins Coloradoan.

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