County steps up social worker oversight

Saying a recent string of child deaths, including the brutal beating of 6-year-old Dae'von Bailey, represents a "perfect storm of negligence," the county Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday for enhanced computerized management oversight of social workers. Troy Anderson in the Daily News.

Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said he was concerned Department of Children and Family Services officials have become too focused on reducing the number of children in foster care. As a result, "all our people are being driven" to find allegations of child abuse and neglect as unfounded, he said.

Yaroslavsky said social workers and other officials received reports Bailey was being abused, but they concluded "nothing was wrong."