Please know full well that this could backfire and you could be without your current placement or any contact . . .
If your state has a office of Child Advocacy (an agency whose sole purpose is to police the foster care system) you could lodge a complaint with them. They tend to be a lot like OSHA - when they come in they will find something wrong and there will be *** to pay - however, if you really feel that no one at your local office will pay attention to your complaints - it may be your only option. We ended up complaining to our state office and about a caseworker who was not meeting with us every month. We had told her supervisor and the center director; however, they were reluctant to do anything about her because of concerns over racism. A lot of foster parents had complained - black & white - however, because there were no other black placement workers at the time, they felt compelled to keep her on. The state office stepped in and they did force her to resign; however, we and several other foster parents are paying dearly in that the cases she had were so mismanaged that we are now under much scrutiny.
This is definitely a "at your own risk" solution.
Good Luck to you
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