Fixing DCFS requires understanding that the tragic errors go in all directions

By: Richard Wexler

Outlets: Utah News Dispatch

Published: February 9, 2026

Words: 778

Last Updated: 3 weeks ago

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By now, so many oversight agencies in so many states have issued reports about those states’ child welfare systems, and those reports so often are accurately described as “scathing,” that it may as well be one word.

But the ScathingReport issued by the Utah Office of the Legislative Auditor General concerning the state Division of Child and Family Services includes a commendable difference: It recognizes that in “child welfare,” the terrible mistakes go in all …

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