TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Incoming Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said she is "stunned" by a state agency's lack of response to a shortage of residential psychiatric beds for children needing care in the state.

During a meeting Tuesday of a task force studying the state's child welfare system, Kelly suggested she wants significant changes after she takes office in January, The Wichita Eagle reported .

"I'm stunned, honestly, that your agency has not done anything concrete to deal with that issue," Kelly told Susan Fout, deputy secretary of the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services.

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