In re Robin O

In 1973, the Office for Children’s Services of the Judicial Conference issued a report entitled Juvenile Injustice which documented the paucity of services available to juveniles under the auspices of this court. Decrying the callousness of public and private agencies, it concluded that failure to move ahead vis-a-vis .solutions to these problems was due to: “ the fragmented and compartmentalized delivery of service systems that allow each department and agency to say ‘let someone else provide for the child ’ ” (p. 71).

This survey, its conclusions and the statistical data underlying them were…