For their apparent incompetence that may have lead to the abuse of a child, three Tennessee Department of Children’s Services employees were disciplined but not fired:

Failure to assign an alleged abuse referral dated April 26, 2004, for investigation by a team leader.

A DCS case manager did not properly forward information to a child protective services investigator on June 16, 2004, regarding alleged abuse of Haley.

And a supervisor failed to instruct the child protective services investigator to report to the hospital until several hours after the child arrived for medical treatment.

For that, they received:

Discipline included the demotion of a Team Leader to a nonsupervisory Case Manager position, along with a 20-day suspension without pay.

Additionally, a case manager was suspended for three days without pay for failing to properly contact a child protective services worker, which placed a child at risk of harm.

A third employee received a letter of written warning.

Posted in uncategorized on August 5th, 2004 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |