Feds recommend performance improvement plan for CT DCF

CT Mirror – Tuesday, September 9, 2025
By Ginny Monk

Connecticut’s child welfare system isn’t hitting federal markers for success, particularly in areas related to ensuring children’s safety, access to services for families and finding a permanent place for foster children to live, according to a new federal report.

The report, from a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services focused on children, found that Connecticut was not in “substantial conformity” with any of the outcome measurements for foster kids’ well-being that the federal government examines regularly. The state was only in conformity with two of seven factors the federal government reviewed.

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