DYFS fails to meet federal requirements for reuniting foster children with families, report says | NJ.com
TRENTON — Most of New Jersey's foster children get routine medical care, are more likely to live in a family home than a group home or institution, and wait less than a year to be adopted once a new family is found for them, according to the latest court-ordered monitoring report grading the state's child welfare system.
But for the third consecutive monitoring period spanning 18 months, the Division of Youth and Family Services has failed to do the work critical to returning foster children to their parents. According to the report released today:
• Only half of the roughly 7,800 children living in foster homes had a plan within a month that mapped out how they would be reunified with their families, far short of the federal court's goal of 95 percent.
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