In a document at work, I’m replacing “so children aren’t lost in a bureaucratic shuffle” with “so children’s needs aren’t lost in a bureaucratic shuffle”… because when you’re writing about the Child Protective Services system in any state, this distinction must be made.
Just make sure that no children are lost in a beer-and-kraut souffle, something that seems just barely possible over here, given the canon of Barvarian kindertales.