SAN ANTONIO – Big changes are coming to the local foster care system. Starting Friday, it will be privatized as the state officially partners with local advocates to set up a system that focuses on the first few hours after a child is removed from a home. At any given time in Bexar County, 2,000 children are in the foster system. Plans are now well underway to transform their care.
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