Connecticut’s child welfare system isn’t hitting federal markers for success, particularly in areas related to ensuring children’s safety, access to services for families and finding a permanent place for foster children to live, according to a new federal report.

The report , from a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services focused on children, found that Connecticut was not in “substantial conformity” with any of the outcome measurements for foster kids’ wellbeing that the federal government examines regularly. The state was only in conformity with two of seven factors the federal government reviewed.

“We have a very serious problem in terms of being unable to meet the needs of the most vulnerable children in our state,” said Sarah Eagan, executive director of the

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