Editorial: Social services

The nonprofit Camelot Community Care, in turn, is selecting three subcontractors as case managers. One of the firms is a for-profit corporate sibling of the parent firm.

Though established agencies with local track records vied for the same contract, Camelot officials insist the corporate ties had nothing to do with the pick.

That so? The firms share corporate officers and the money made by each unit comes together in the lead firm's bottom line, as shown by an enterprise report in last Sunday's newspaper.

This is not a confidence-building way to get the privatization of the Department of Children and Families under way.

A mission supposedly driven by the need for better oversight of social services seems devoid of oversight of finances and ethics.

Though our local legislative delegation sets rather than executes policy, these elected officials also vote on spending. Their constituents will be eager to see and hear what legislators think of all this. Where is the oversight?