And lawyers in other recent class-action lawsuits against the city's welfare operation say that monitoring by a federal court has sometimes been helpful in forcing the city to meet its legal obligations.
But officials close to Gov. James E. McGreevey said the statistics amounted to yet more evidence that the state's entire child welfare operation had to be rethought, and said the governor would soon be proposing legislation to create an independent child welfare watchdog agency, probably within the state attorney general's office.
But after details of its welfare operation emerged it added: "Although the animals in the Vale of Glamorgan are kept on private land, we welcome the Welsh government's work on the issue of fly grazed and abandoned horses and hope that Westminster will follow suit so that more effective legislation can be introduced throughout England as well as Wales".
The Church runs one of the largest private welfare operations in the country, producing everything from granola to detergent under its own brand names.
Some people in the I.R.S. field office in Cincinnati took the names of certain groups — names that included the terms "Tea Party" and "patriot," among others, which tend to signal conservatism — as signals that they might not be engaged in "social welfare" operations.
In May 2007, a city panel set up to review the department's child welfare operations in the wake of the Kelly case and 51 other deaths of children in the agency's care over several years, urged changes that Ms. Ambrose said were being adopted.
Rachael Welfare, operations director for Gap Filler, a charitable organisation filling the "gaps" of Christchurch with pop-up creative projects, said: "Before the quake, people thought of Christchurch as quite conservative, but now the opportunities have given people a blank canvas, if nothing else, and people are very open-minded about what the spaces could be".
When oil was selling at $100 per barrel or above, as was the case until 2014, these countries could finance lavish government projects and social welfare operations, ensuring widespread popular support.
"We're kind of the missing person's bureau," said Steve Whitehead, who is overseeing the Red Cross's welfare information operation for the hurricane.
At home, in the wake of welfare reform, Operation Blessing joined forces with another charity, the Outreach Foundation, to expand a program called Wings Life Skills Training, to help former welfare recipients make the transition to the work force.
As a result, we are reduced to making guesses about children's welfare, the operation of the District's social workers, and the local judiciary's oversight effectiveness.
