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Improving child welfare will take much more than LePage’s 3 quick fixes

After the state’s watchdog agency blamed the state’s Department of Health and Human Services Department’s “poor performance” in two recent cases where young children died, Gov. Paul LePage unexpectedly showed up at a legislative hearing to propose changes to the state’s child protective system. It was good to finally hear LePage take some responsibility for his administration’s failures and to offer some fixes after the deaths of 10-year-old Marissa Kennedy and 4-year-old Kendall Chick. “As a person who grew up in an abusive home, I take full responsibility to ensure we reform the system and see that justice is served for these children,” the governor tweeted Thursday. His solutions, however, are, as is typical with his administration, heavy handed and overly punitive.

 

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