AUSTIN — Budget cuts may scuttle a proposal to keep North Texas’ most fragile victims of child abuse from being shipped to Houston, a state official said Tuesday. Protective services chief Anne Heiligenstein told Senate budget writers that their all-cuts approach would reduce foster care payments by 12 percent and kill a plan to revamp rates and contracting that she hoped would create more residential treatment centers in the Dallas area. Centers care for the most traumatized and emotionally disturbed children in state custody. Only two of the 66 centers that agree to accept Child Protective Services’ wards are in Dallas County.
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