San Diego County child welfare officials adopted 88 recommendations to improve services to kids, families
New child welfare practices have updated protections for children, families and staff and have allowed more than three-quarters of foster children to be placed with their siblings, according to a report to the San Diego County Board of Supervisors this week.
Those improvements led to 76 percent of children in care being placed with siblings as of January 2022 along with more support for caregivers and families and trauma support for employees, county officials said. The percentage of foster siblings placed together was up about 7 percent from 2018, when 68.9 percent of siblings were placed in the same homes.
In December of that year, the working group issued a report with detailed recommendations for improving child welfare services.The agency adopted those recommendations over the next few years and reported on its results Tuesday. The county also worked with Angels Foster Family Network, a nonprofit foster care agency, to increase sibling placements within its system, the report said. And county child welfare services updated policies to require a sibling visitation plan and ensure frequent contact among siblings who could not be placed together.
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