Henri Cauvin is reporting over at the Washington Post that more than 100 employees were laid off today from D.C.’s Child and Family Services Agency. The layoffs were “prompted by citywide budget cuts and plans to restructure some jobs” at CFSA.

Looming budget cuts notwithstanding, this is a fairly stunning development. Previously, the number of layoffs expected at CFSA has been estimated at closer to 54. And of course all of this comes wrapped in the context that this is the same agency over which Fenty’s right-hand man, Attorney General Peter Nickles, recently went in front of a U.S. District Court judge to argue that it ought to be freed of its longtime court-appointed oversight. The judge in that case eventually ruled, rather harshly, against Nickles and Fenty, reasoning that despite some short-term progress seen at CFSA since the horrific Banita Jacks case, the District has “yet to deliver a fully satisfactory child welfare system.”

Now, the troubled agency has reportedly fired every single one of its social worker aides, and then some. CFSA Director Roque Gerald has argued that the cuts are possible because the agency now serves fewer children than it used to, but there’s been some question over whether that’s just because the city is failing to assist more kids than ever.