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EDITORIAL: Dept of Children and Families: A step to save N.J.'s kids.(Editorial)

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)

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Jul. 19--The last two weeks may have brought more changes to the way New Jersey deals with its most vulnerable children than the two years that preceded it. What a lot of time lost. For the sake of those children, may the next two years be far more productive. The best news is that this time, the discredited state Division of Youth and Family Services has been buried, rather than one of its young clients.

DYFS, the Guantanamo Bay of state child welfare agencies, is no more. Last week, the services that fell under DYFS were pulled out of the behemoth Department of Human Services, and put into a new, cabinet-level agency called the Department of Children…

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