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November 26, 2025, 04:49:35 AM |
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the CPS gets a budget(multiple from different national/state level government departments), they know the only way to keep/increase their budget each budget review is to perform certain acts(have so many active cases, have some many referrals, have so many foster care allocations)
EG if the US has a budget to enter 200k children per year into the foster care system. knowing their actions of doing so has sub-budgets for personnel costs as a % of each childs case. then the only way to get pay rises is to increase the number of children that enter the system
if they suddenly went to a policy of trying to keep the family together via referrals to therapy and other support, they would not get as much budget, and so their policy/ strategy is to hit a invisible quota of how many children need to enter foster care to hit targets of retaining a certain level of budget
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put it simply, CPS gets very little money for just doing a welfare check and deciding the child is safe at home CPS gets more money if they exaggerate minor family disputes into major issues which require separating the child CPS gets more money if they can then do other actions whilst the child is in foster care
so its more of an incentive to escalate minor issues into reasons to put families through the process, than to just do a welfare check and realise nothing needs to be done
the big bucks are if they put a kid in foster care, put the parents through the court system, then the rehabilitation/reunification process.. as the end result of reunification is pretty much what they consider their success.. but requires putting the family through the lengthy separation process to get that end success bonus
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