Reform of child agency pledged; Fenty officials talk to council.(METROPOLITAN)

Byline: Gary Emerling, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The Fenty administration yesterday pledged to reform the city's long-troubled Child and Family Services Agency, a day after the mayor fired six child welfare workers for failing to help four girls found dead last week in a Southeast row house.

"This is not a case in which everyone is to blame so no one is to blame," interim Attorney General Peter J. Nickles said during a D.C. Council hearing on the city's efforts to locate the children of Banita Jacks. "This government failed this family. There are no excuses."

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