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The family appeared to be well known to city child welfare workers.

In fact, they are not police officers or city welfare workers.

In 1988, child welfare workers removed the children from their mother.

Child welfare workers, teachers, the police and the parents all came under scrutiny.

It was dark when the welfare workers came for the patients in a school bus.

Welfare workers, they said, can now do calculations by hand.

At one hearing, the state child welfare worker simply did not show up.

The children were placed in the custody of child welfare workers.

Child welfare workers say they used to remove children as a last resort, first trying to help with services in the home.

Domestic violence has always been a tricky problem for child welfare workers.

Under the agreement, the official said, child welfare workers were to monitor the family for a year.

Ms. Williams, according to child welfare workers, had a major drug problem.

Officials say a child welfare worker had been assigned to the family of a boy who died.

He said welfare workers in individual counties would investigate cases that were less clear.

His first professional job was as a probation and welfare worker.

He sometimes wonders whether it would be better to have welfare workers take his siblings away.

By state law, child welfare workers cannot check the criminal records of people who want to become foster parents.

Child welfare workers were suspended and the mayor created a new position for the protection of children.

At that point, child welfare workers paid heed, relatives said.

The girl was removed from the home yesterday by child welfare workers, who were working to locate the father, the police said.

Child welfare workers were sent out to make sure that parents were taking care of their children.

Elisa's case had repeatedly come to the attention of city welfare workers before her death.

Nine months earlier a child welfare worker had found that the mother "simply has no idea how to parent," the study said.

But it would be a mistake to organize welfare workers into a union, because what they are doing does not amount to a job.

The family was also being investigated by child welfare workers, who had received complaints of abuse.