Once courts pull children from troubled homes in Kansas, the practical work of finding them temporary or permanent places to stay largely gets handed off to contractors. Now, the Kansas Department for Children and Families hopes that by hiring more private contractors to run foster care services, it can start to fix chronic problems that sometimes have made rescue operations disasters all their own. But, as Madeline Fox of the Kansas News Service reports, the changes run the risk of creating new problems.
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