New study shows inconsistency among state child protection workers, lack of training

High rates of turnover are leading to inconsistency at the Office of Children’s Services, which operates the state’s foster care system. That’s according to a new study released last month focusing on surveys with the child protection agency’s frontline workers.
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For the past decade, there’s been a 30 percent staff turnover rate at OCS. University of Alaska Anchorage professor Diwakar Vadapalli, who heads the community oversight group Citizen Review Panel,