Santa Clara County has seen an encouraging decline in child death rates, while simultaneously being marred by repeat tragedies and scandals as a result of bad homes and youth welfare leaders bungling foster cases. The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday grappled with official findings that most deaths of children under the county’s care between 2021 and 2023 — a time when the county was in a pandemic lockdown and transitioning out of it — were avoidable. A February county medical examiner report studied 108 out of a total 315 child deaths and found an increasing trend of deaths occurring in…
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