Gov. Henry McMaster has made a promising hire to help turn around the S.C. Department of Social Services which, like the Department of Corrections, has been operating in crisis mode for years. So it’s clear that Michael Leach of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services will need plenty of help to bring to South Carolina the kind of reforms that improved his Tennessee agency and, more importantly, the lives of thousands of often abused or neglected children.

There’s much to recommend Mr. Leach. The Tennessee agency suffered from ills remarkably similar to those in South Carolina, but in a hopeful sign, it now stands out as a national model for

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