Will Philly fix its foster care system for kids and families?

Will Philly fix its foster care system for kids and families?

For years, people with intimate knowledge of foster care practices at the Department of Human Services cited similar problems: random and subjective decision-making, the confusion of poverty and neglect, an unstable workforce riven by turnover — and more. Now, those complaints stand a greater chance of being heard after two city councilmembers — sparked by a Philadelphia Journalism Collaborative investigation, published in the Philadelphia Inqui…