On April 5, a task force created to improve Santa Barbara County’s child welfare system will deliver county supervisors a slate of recommendations aimed at ensuring that no children “fall between the cracks.” The Santa Barbara County Child Welfare Safety Net Task Force’s top recommendation closely mirrors something done by Los Angeles County when it convened its own commission to improve child safety in 2013. Like L.A.’s blue ribbon commission, which called for the creation of an Office of Child Protection to oversee all of the county’s child serving systems, Santa Barbara County’s task force wants to see the county appoint a “Chief Child Advocate” to improve outcomes for “at-risk children before, during, and after they are in the county’s care.”
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