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Report Shows DCFS Investigators Caseloads Too High

A new analysis finds caseloads for Illinois Department of Children and Family Services investigators are too high.

The biggest trouble spots are in Cook County, the counties around Chicago and in southern Illinois. The report says its analysis found the department is violating a 1991 federal consent decree that aimed to set monthly limits on new cases for investigators.

Investigators should handle about two dozen cases at a time, but a survey found they often have 40 or more cases.

DCFS spokesman Kendall Marlowe says it would be a mistake to attribute the recent deaths of 2 Chicago-area children to worker caseloads. Marlowe says hiring more investigators would solve the problem if that were the case, "and it won't."

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