NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The Connecticut Department of Children and Families is promising improvements to help prevent fatalities after a series of child deaths involving families who had contact with the agency.

DCF is expanding its work with child abuse experts from Yale New Haven Hospital and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center to improve how investigators, hospitals and primary care providers recognize abuse when a child suffers an injury. The experts are providing education and training and will be more routinely available to the department’s care line, which receives reports of abuse and neglect, DCF announced this week.

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