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Full Sentence Outline XXXXXXXXXXXX COM/220 XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX   I. Although CPS follows their guidelines, they can do more to protect the children because too many cases slip through the cracks and many children are still abused after a CPS investigation has been completed. II. It has been reported that CPS workers take on to many cases at one time. a. In 2009, CPS workers in Huston had 30 to 40 open cases at one time. (Wallace. 2009. Para 7) b. In Texas, almost half of the children killed by abuse were from families that had been investigated by Texas Child Protective Services. In the past five years this statistic has had no improvement. (Wallace. 2009. Para 10) III. Reports show CPS workers not only fail to meet the required deadline to investigate a claim, some close a case without adequate investigation. a. In the case of Justice and Raiden Robinson, the CPS worker, Munn, closed an investigation that was brought on by three complaints in a week where the mother was in an accident due to intoxication. This worker never attempted to retrieve crash, hospital or pediatrician records.(Martin. 2005. Para 20) b. Three months after the Robinson case was closed without investigation another report came in and was labeled high-risk, requiring a face to face visit within 10 days. Munn waited 23 days to have her face to face visit. (Martin. 2005. Para 22) IV. In many cases supervisors do not make themselves aware of what is happening within an investigation. a. In the case of the Robinson brothers, Munn’s supervisor reviewed Munn’s work in May 2004 and found nothing to be amiss. (Martin.2005.Para 2) This review was three months after the last case was opened and six months before the boys were found dead. Note: cases are supposed to be completed within 90 days, this case was open for nine months. b. In the case of four year old Jahmaurae Allen’s beating death, the supervisor did not review any case documentation until after this child was dead, five weeks after the emergency referral. (Basofin. 2009. Para 19) V. CPS workers have numerous responsibilities and factors to consider during each investigation. a. CPS has 30 days to complete an investigation. (Michigan.gov.2007) (After this statement I will go into detail every step of the investigation process.) b. There are several factors a CPS worker must take into consideration during an investigation in order to close and categorize the case.(Michigan.gov.2007) (After this statement I will go into detail all the factors to be considered.) VI. CPS workers must know what issues are usually not considered abuse or neglect without other indicators. a. There are some issues that are not ruled child abuse or neglect if they are not accompanied by other issues. CPS workers cannot always classify something as abuse.(Mighigan.gov 2007) (After this I will go into all the issues that usually need to be accompanied by other issues to be ruled abuse.)   *I plan to insert quotes in II a & b, III a & b and IV a & b. All of the abuse/death cases I am writing about really happened. Within each report there are statements as to what went wrong; I would like to quote the reasoning because this is what my essay is on. *I feel that all of my arguments are effective. After looking this over again I think I may start with III, if I had to pick one argument to be the strongest it would be this. *My counter arguments are all facts about the roles and responsibilities of a CPS worker. I don’t feel this can weaken my argument because there is no excuse for not protecting a child. * I plan to insert the graph between my argument and the counter argument because it does not side with either.   http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dhs/DHS-Sec514-PA248-2008-CPS_291362_7.pdf