Article: State of Florida Terminates Contract with Company Monitoring Child Abuse.

By Carol Marbin Miller, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 8--Child welfare administrators Thursday abruptly terminated $6 million in contracts with a private company hired to reduce the state's backlog of child abuse reports, amid allegations that caseworkers falsified records and failed to assess children's safety.

The decision by the Florida Department of Children & Families comes after a series of reports by The Herald disclosing serious shortcomings in the performance of the company, called the Florida Task Force for the Protection of Abused and Neglected Children.

Two recent DCF audits, in Miami-Dade County and ...

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