IMO there are some things that should never be privatized. This is one of them because too much is at stake.

The contractors will make out like bandits, and the piss-poor oversight (see below) will only get worse.

Last year, over 100 children died who had open Texas CPS case files.

http://kxan.com/2017/01/30/funding-for-cps-debated-after-200-texas-children-died/

The state DHS can't oversee contracts properly -

"The state's effort to privatize foster care has hit another bump. The Health and Human Services Commission recently halted the bid process for a substantial foster care contract because an employee may have violated ethics rules or state law. The bid will remain on hold until the commission's inspector general can investigate.

The suspended bid is another example of the Health and Human Services Commission's perennial difficulties with developing, awarding, monitoring and evaluating contracts. In January, the Legislative Budget Board weighed in on the commission's medical transportation contracts, and its findings were brutal: Costs per trip more than doubled after privatization, complaints soared, and the percentage of Medicaid patients served was cut in half. "These cost and quality issues have been due in part to procurement and contract management failures," the report states.

And just yesterday I corrected a poster who categorized CPS as a private enterprise. LAME.

Well I'm sure this child theft racket could yield much higher return in private hands. 110.000 US children a year and only a $14 billion business? https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1670500

That's truly a waste... /s

Another article: https://news.utexas.edu/2017/02/28/privatizing-child-protective-services-would-be-bad-for-texas