Florida Senate President Don Gaetz called for greater accountability for the state’s privatized child-welfare system, despite arguments by local community-based care agencies that Florida is one of the best states in the country for the treatment of abused and neglected children.
“If everything was working, we wouldn’t have 400 children slipping through the cracks of the system and dying,” Gaetz, R-Niceville, said on Friday. “The (community-based care agencies) will have to improve their operations and be more accountable, just like the state agency will have to.”
