Child Protective Services holds trainee graduation as agency rebounds

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Department of Family and Protective added 14 new caseworkers to Child Protective Services Tuesday afternoon in a trainee graduation ceremony. This comes as the agency is making progress in rebuilding a program that came under immense scrutiny by the public and state lawmakers more than a year ago.
Late in 2016, several high profile child deaths led lawmakers to take a closer look at the state foster care system and DFPS, the agency charged to run it. Longtime wounds cam