Baker rolls out first steps to reforming child welfare agency

BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday took the first steps toward reforming the troubled Department of Children and Families with measures to improve client-tracking procedures and to ensure that social workers don't miss warning signs of abuse or neglect. Baker's actions came several months after the body of Bella Bond, a toddler, was found on Deer Island in Boston Harbor. An independent probe later faulted the child welfare agency for failing to help the little girl in 2013.

BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday took the first steps toward reforming the troubled Department of Children and Families with measures to improve client-tracking procedures and to ensure that social workers don't miss warning signs of abuse or neglect. Baker's actions came several months after the body of Bella Bond, a toddler, was found on Deer Island in Boston Harbor. An independent probe later faulted the child welfare agency for failing to help the little girl in 2013.…