Among those with an opinion, twice as many say DCS
not doing good job
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — More than twice as many Tennesseans say that the
Department of Children’s Services is not doing a good job keeping children in
the foster care system safe than say that DCS is doing a good job, but most say
they are unsure or don’t know.
Thirty-five
percent of Tennesseans say DCS is not doing good job of keeping children in the
foster care system safe. Only 17 percent say DCS is doing a good job. A
plurality of 48 percent say they are unsure how good of a job DCS is doing.
These
figures are statistically the same as a year ago in the spring of 2013, the
last time the MTSU Poll asked this question. Then 18 percent said DCS was doing
a good job, 31 percent said DCS was not doing a good job, and 49 percent were
unsure.
“There
are at least a couple of possible explanations for the widespread uncertainty
on this issue,” said Jason Reineke, associate director of the poll at Middle
Tennessee State University. “Though there were prominent reports of failures to
keep children safe about a year ago, measures have been taken so people may be
waiting to see if those measures are effective before making up their minds.
Or, of course, many people may simply not have heard enough about the issue to
form opinions.”
Poll
data were collected Jan. 23–26, via telephone interviews of 600 Tennessee
adults conducted by Issues and Answers Network Inc. using balanced, random
samples of Tennessee landline and cell phones. Results have an error margin of
plus-or-minus 4 percentage points at the 95 percent level of confidence. The
data were weighted to match the latest available Census estimates of gender and
race proportions in Tennessee.
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