CPS INVESTIGATORS ORDERED TO WORK OVERTIME
Texas child welfare investigators have been ordered to work overtime this weekend to ensure that kids at risk of abuse are being seen and evaluated.
State Child Protective Services spokesman Patrick Crimmins told The Dallas Morning News the workers will have face-to-face visits in Bexar, Dallas and Harris counties.
An agency email obtained by the newspaper says overtime will be paid to investigators and supervisors for several weeks. It also requests that CPS workers elsewhere in Texas travel this month to Dallas, Houston or San Antonio to assist with cases for at least a week.
Records released earlier this week show that investigators are still not promptly checking on thousands of kids as the state grapples with a shortage of caseworkers.
Texas continues to struggle to retain its low-paid caseworkers.
It says it right there…..low paid case workers! Depending on the state department that you work in, dictates how much you can make. Work for DPS as a license clerk and you will get a raise each year, work for DADS or DSHS or any of those, and you are at the mercy of the legislature! They dictate if and when you get a raise and most raises are given to cover the increase in insurance, plus it’s an across the board raise; which means someone starting new to DADS, etc. will be paid at or about what a person who has been there several years makes. It’s a sad situation and yet you have the state paying the college coaches millions of dollars!!