Kelley Fong, an assistant professor of sociology at UC Irvine, embedded with caseworkers in Connecticut for about six months in 2018 to research their work. “It’s easy when we look back from horrific outcomes to see opportunities that were missed,” Fong said. “It’s much more challenging to look forward.”… Caseworkers visiting homes typically know nothing about the family and spend only a few hours with it, Fong said.  The best investigators will seek information from a variety of sources including doctors, mental-health treatment providers and teachers and then check criminal records.

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