New Trouble at Children’s Services

Sheila Poole, the acting chief of the state Office of Children and Family Services, slammed the city Administration for Children’s Services hard — and deservedly so.

It turns out ACS under then-Commissioner Gladys Carríon never told its state overseers that it wasn’t conducting background checks for years after they became legally required in 2013 — including criminal-background checks.

When he replaced Carríon, David Hansell got the proper vetting done right for new hires — but apparently never made good on state officials’ August 2017 request to retroactively check Carríon’s hires.

As The Post’s Rich Calder and Bruce Golding report, Poole’s scathing letter charges that ACS “abdicated its responsibility” and “compromised the health and safety” of “vulnerable children.” Under Carríon, she says, many ACS workers were never checked against an “exclusion list” of people with histories of abuse or neglect.

She not only says the de Blasio administration covered up its failure to screen new hires, but also that it’s still dragging its feet in providing records to her agency, which is investigating the scandal — a continued failure to comply with legal requirements she deems “inexcusable.”

All this follows news that Jacques Edwards, charged with assaulting a 6-year-old while on the job for ACS, had served 28 years in prison for homicide. That would have derailed his hiring, had Carríon been doing her job — and should have sidelined him if Hansell had kept his word.

Lies, coverups, massive agency failures: They’re all too common under Bill de Blasio, even when it comes to New York’s most vulnerable.