New legislation “sends a clear and powerful message,” says a lawmaker.
“It is time to look at what is not working and fix it,” says another lawmaker.
“It’s got to be all hands on deck,” says an advocate.
If throwing cliches at a problem would solve it, Connecticut would have the best child welfare system in America. Instead, the tired thinking reflected in those tired cliches explains the real problem: A state that once really might have become the best, or at least the least bad, child welfare system in America has been slouching back to mediocrity or worse.
