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Dir James E. McGreevey began his State of the State address yesterday pledged to solve New Jersey’s Child Welfare System after the discovery of cases of horrific abuse last week in Newark. Nichts”Ich in this past year shook me personally as much,”he said.

But then, it was the threat of $ 5 billion budget deficit, the scourge of suburban sprawl, motor vehicles Agency troubled, chronic auto insurance, crisis and the need to plant trees, save arable land, to draw rules of ethics, maintain clean air.

It is inevitable conflicts of interest shuffle, and the question is whether the child protection again get lost in it.

The event was a Newark made-for-media tragedy. The body of 7 years, Faheem Williams was filled with plastic in a camp. Two of his brothers were trapped in the same sub-soil, dying of hunger and traces of burns. Her mother was in a Bronx hospital, was created by a car on the way, she says. The relative called to care for kids - a Go-Go dancer - eluded police for five days. The government, a popular villain, played his role perfectly, reveals a long history and dynamic contact with the family Williams.

He leads inevitably calls for the revision of the State Department for Youth and Families, known by its acronym clumsy ausgeprägt”Die-agitation.”

But that was last week.

Mr. McGreevey speech showed why childhood is a general rule, crises Piñata - except for special occasions, Hung up and beaten ritually.

The governor of the determination of child care is unlikely that eroded since last week, but it is hardly surprising that other themes of his speech dominant. The truth is, the deficit is outrageous, transport is terrible and the department of motor vehicles - DMV in New Jersey parlance - is the enemy far more voters as governor of the DYFS The DMV DYFS not mention in its worst als”Landesregierung.”

But for the establishment of childhood, the government on its side the finest and most difficult.

”The crisis is not sustainable, itself long enough, so that the commitment you need to go,’’said Nicholas Scoppetta, has spent six years as New York City’s Children’s Commissioner.

Faheem was perhaps avoidable death in 1995, the massacre of 6 years, Elisa Izquierdo, whose abuse began the long review of New York City’s Child Welfare System.

Despite cycles of crisis and reform promised Faheem death suspended an agency does not seem able to capture more clearly as a case of negligence. Familiar administrative weaknesses were: Case Worker surveillance referred to above 80 children, prehistoric computer and a lack of mobile phones and cars.

New Jersey’s Child Welfare Agency is not a background image that New York was founded in 1995. But the effort in New York, but incomplete, shows how it can take to make a difference - a new agency report to the mayor, half a billion dollars increase in budgetary resources for a period of six years, computerization complete file system, drastically reduce caseloads.

It will take some time, the benefits,’’said Scoppetta.

And it is almost guaranteed a political losers. It is very expensive. It’s long-range, and even if you are successful, you’re not isolated the type of securities that leads you to try first.