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Here is another fine example of the last frontier of the child welfare industry: lawsuits.

Okla. DHS pays $3.4M to settle lawsuits since 2005

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Department ofHuman Services has paid about $3.4 million since 2005 to settle lawsuits for child deaths and neglect, according to a newspaper report.

The Tulsa World reported (http://bit.ly/p3nfHw ) Sunday said there have been 24 payouts ranging from $15,000 to settle a civil rights violations lawsuit by parents whose children were placed in emergency custody to $700,000 for the death of a child at a child care center.

The lawsuit settlements are approved based on the type of case, according to DHS spokeswomanSheree Powell. She said the litigation is also used to change policy and practices.

"Our attorneys also participate in various training courses for DHS employees in which we use information developed in litigation as very good teaching points for our new social workers in an effort to avoid recurrences of similar issues in the future," Powell said.

But state House Speaker Kris Steele said in an email to the newspaper that the figures show a clear need to make policy changes at DHS. Steele has previously called for a review to determine if DHS should be reorganized.

"The fiscal cost of failures in the child welfare system pales in comparison to the cost Oklahoma's most vulnerable children paid as a result of those failures," said Steele, R-Shawnee.

Oklahoma ranks fifth in the nation in the rate of child abuse and neglect deaths, with 3.4 child deaths per 100,000, according to the National Coalition to End Child Abuse Death. This is a slight improvement from 2001, when the state ranked third in the country with a rate of 3.7.

The settlements are in addition to the more than $4.2 million DHS has spent on outside legal counsel to defend a class-action lawsuit alleging abuses in the foster-care system. That federal trial is to start Feb. 1.