(Springfield, IL) — The state’s auditor general is reporting that the Department of Children and Family Services is still leaving children warehoused in psychiatric hospitals and emergency shelters much longer than they should be. The “Chicago Tribune” reports that the auditor’s report concluded that children in the system often spend hundreds of days in such facilities because DCFS didn’t have places for them in foster homes or group facilities. The American Civil Liberties Union has taken the agency to court over the problem, but DCFS Director George Sheldon says it takes time to build a network of therapeutic foster homes.
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David Stewart/dlt IL)
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