Workers with Children and Family Services said they fear vulnerable children are being put at risk by case backlogs and staff shortages. In an e-mailed statement, Matthew Cassie, a spokesperson for Children and Family Services (CFS), disputed the figures obtained by the CBC. But caseload data shows many child intervention practitioners have assignments in the high teens or low 20s. As of mid-February, 63 of 154 child intervention practitioners in the Calgary region had over 13 files assigned to them. The figures do not include child intervention practitioners who work in centralized intake or on specialized teams and do not do assessments.
