Article snippet: Mayor Bill de Blasio, still struggling with the fallout from a series of deaths of vulnerable children, named a new child welfare commissioner on Tuesday, choosing a longtime social services official who had left government for the private sector. The new commissioner, David Hansell, replaces Gladys Carrión, who announced in December that she would step down as head of New York’s Administration for Children’s Services amid a wave of scrutiny and criticism. The agency, under orders from the state, is hiring an independent monitor, after a review faulted child welfare workers in connection with the death of Zymere Perkins, a 6-year-old who was not removed from his mother’s care despite signs that the boy was in grave danger. Mr. Hansell, who has been working as a senior manager at the accounting firm KPMG, was introduced by the mayor Tuesday morning at a news conference in Manhattan. Mr. Hansell, 63, said the mayor asked him what motivated him to take on such a challenging job. “I answered him with my own question: ‘Where is there a more important place to serve the most vulnerable individuals?’ ” Mr. Hansell said. Entering an election year, Mr. de Blasio faces pressure to show progress in social services, which was a focus of his as a city councilman and later as a public advocate, but which has proved more difficult to manage as mayor. Homelessness has surged under Mr. de Blasio, and high-profile child deaths have led to more reviews and larger caseloads for soci... Link to the full article to read more