{"id":5577,"date":"2015-12-04T10:16:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bfp.makingitsimple.net\/?p=5577"},"modified":"2015-12-04T10:16:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T15:16:53","slug":"senate-panel-confirms-secretary-mike-carroll-as-head-of-department-of-children-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fpocf.org\/senate-panel-confirms-secretary-mike-carroll-as-head-of-department-of-children-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate panel confirms Secretary Mike Carroll as head of Department of Children &#038; Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After grilling him about changes in the state\u2019s child welfare system, a panel of state senators Thursday okayed Mike Carroll\u2019s appointment as secretary of the Department of Children and Families.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll, who is from Safety Harbor, was first appointed interim secretary by Gov. Rick Scott in April 2014, in the midst of serious upheaval in the department. His appointment came after the Miami Herald chronicled a series of child deaths, including 477 children whose families had previously interacted with DCF.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, other the Tampa Bay Times and Sarasota Herald-Tribune have detailed violence and neglect at the state\u2019s mental hospitals, tied to decreases in funding and understaffing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite some of the failures that are so prominently documented in the news, the department has many successes too,\u201d Carroll said. \u201cWe deal with many families where we change literally the trajectory of a child\u2019s life, we change the trajectory of a family\u2019s life moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/blogs\/the-buzz-florida-politics\/senate-panel-confirms-secretary-mike-carroll-as-head-of-department-of\/2256375?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tampabaycom%2Fblogs%2Fbuzz+%28The+Buzz+%7C+tampabay.com%29\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After grilling him about changes in the state\u2019s child welfare  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-articles","wpautop"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Senate panel confirms Secretary Mike Carroll as head of Department of Children &amp; 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