Report 2011-101.2 Recommendation 3 Responses

Report 2011-101.2: Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services: Management Instability Hampered Efforts to Better Protect Children (Release Date: March 2012)

Recommendation #3 To: Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services

To better ensure that inner-city regional offices are staffed by experienced social workers, the department should consider providing social workers with incentives to work in these areas or require them to remain in these offices for a period longer than the one year currently required.

6-Month Agency Response

The department has temporarily frozen transfers of social workers who work in inner-city offices. It has also notified future social workers, who will be assigned to inner-city offices, that they will be expected to remain in those offices for at least two years. Additionally, the department is attempting to provide financial incentives to social workers who work in inner-city regional offices. (See 2013-406, p. 124)

California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Fully Implemented

All Recommendations in 2011-101.2

Agency responses received after June 2013 are posted verbatim.