The employees’ union surveyed frustrated caseworkers who feel they haven’t had much of a voice in needed changes at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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With DHHS under scrutiny in children’s deaths, agency’s chief announces his retirement
Ricker Hamilton has run the Department of Health and Human Services since May 2017, a time in which questions have been raised about its handling of child abuse cases.
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LePage not waiting to submit bills to improve child protection system after all
The governor previously called for lawmakers to first consider other bills important to him, but now says addressing the protective services problems can’t wait.
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LePage slams employee union whose members spoke out about problems in child protection system
Two days after saying that caseworkers’ concerns are ‘being heard,’ the governor accuses the Maine State Employees Association of trying to take credit for his reforms.
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LePage says he’s working to solve problems cited by child protection workers – without new hires
The governor says he’s about to request more money for training and technology in response to caseworkers’ criticism and the deaths of two young girls.
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Watchdog committee reviews options for reforms in Maine’s child protection system
Lawmakers will consider better training standards for people who are mandated to report suspected child abuse, as well as more access to school attendance and other records for human services caseworkers.
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CDC issues alert about salmonella tied to chicken, ducks in backyard flocks
The infections are linked to contact with the animals, and so far one case has been reported in Maine.
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DHHS chief says agency will call for more – and better-paid – workers to protect children from abuse
Ricker Hamilton tells lawmakers that the governor will support a bill to increase staffing, as lawmakers continue to probe the workings of the system after the beating deaths of two young girls.
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Lawmakers vote to subpoena DHHS chief after agency no-shows in child death probe
‘How dumb are we to take him at his word?’ a frustrated senator says of Gov. LePage after his assurances of cooperation with the Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee.
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Lawmakers work urgently to address problems with state’s child protective services
A member of a committee developing a bill to address DHHS failings cited after two deaths hopes for a vote ‘no later than September.’