Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 13, 2024

That much is clear to anyone who bothers to look at the data that New Jersey shares with the federal government through the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) and which the federal Children’s Bureau shares through its annual Child Maltreatment reports.

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Relias

MARCH 13, 2025

The pandemic accelerated the adoption of these tools, and nurses are now at the forefront of digital health transformation. Workforce shortages, administrative burdens, and restrictive scope-of-practice laws continue to challenge the full realization of nurse-led care models.

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Relias

APRIL 10, 2025

How healthcare organizations can stay compliant with the Emergency Preparedness Rule To ensure ongoing compliance with the rule and support operational readiness, healthcare leaders can take the following steps: Establish a preparedness committee that includes leadership, clinical staff, and administrative personnel.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 23, 2023

The Bronx Defenders is suing New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, over such a case. The timing can leave parents reeling and unable to contact government offices with questions or objections: If ACS conducts a removal on a Friday night, for example, a judge will not review it until Monday.

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Relias

MARCH 5, 2024

Some temporary regulatory measures that made telehealth adoption easier during the pandemic have now faded away. Virtual, or online, training is a great alternative to ensure teams maintain compliance with the various governing bodies.

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Social Care

AUGUST 10, 2023

As part of the plans for reform, set out in the 2021 government white paper, People at the Heart of Care , the digitising social care programme is supporting widespread digitisation across the sector to improve the quality, safety and personalisation of care and support services. If you are one of them, we’re here to help.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Sector bodies have voiced concerns about the future of the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF), with the government having failed to confirm funding beyond March 2025. ” The concerns echo those voiced by the Consortium of Voluntary Adoption Agencies (CVAA) in a report published in October last year.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

“New Federal Report Demonstrates Reduction in Child Maltreatment Victims and Underscores Need for Continued Action,” the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) of the US Department of Health and Human Services proclaimed in releasing the latest annual report on the government response to child abuse and neglect.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

It’s practically the slogan of everyone in the family policing establishment, from the federal government’s Administration for Children and Families to the smallest county family police agency. And it’s important to draw a distinction between that one element of government – the family police – and government as a whole.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, desperately wants to keep it that way. Khadijah Abdurahman In other news: ? This really should be obvious: If you don’t know your rights then you don’t really have those rights.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

? Who says the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act hasn’t accomplished anything good? ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either. ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

What this longtime administrator is saying is that the oppressed must always be nice to their oppressors. And we wound up with hideous laws like the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. You’re shaming and blaming! That’s just another form of oppression. The result: The family preservation movement almost niced itself to death.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2001, the government tasked the former chief inspector of social services with chairing a statutory inquiry into the murder of the eight-year-old Ivorian girl by her great aunt, Marie-Therese Kouao, and Kouao’s boyfriend, Carl Manning the previous year.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Some advocates in Maine have tried to use one data point in the federal governments annual Child Maltreatment report to justify the states ongoing foster-care panic. Unfortunately, as The Imprint reports, during its final days, the Biden Administration withdrew regulations that would have done just that.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

As the trade journal The Imprint reported: “I’m happy to say we really haven’t seen any indicators” of an increase in undetected child abuse, Commissioner of the Administration for Children’s Services David Hansell told the City Council. Arons’ overall assessment was confirmed by the head of New York City’s family policing agency.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Sometimes one small detail from a government document tells a huge story especially when a good reporter adds a little context. Baird answered that babies have never possessed a cultural identity, and therefore are not losing anything, at their age, by being adopted. So now theres another lawsuit.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The foster parents in this case didn’t do anything illegal – in fact the placement was authorized by a government agency, and the foster parents probably have the best of intentions. His administration used it as a justification for not returning children his administration took at the Mexican border.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.” --And in this essay, she takes on the harm of mandatory reporting laws. Instead, the coach is going to court to adopt your child – because he now has every bit as much right to your child as you do.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 14, 2025

It marked the first anniversary of the last time the federal government published something called The AFCARS Report. AFCARS stands for Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System. During the last year of the Biden Administration, it got worse. Ya wanna see an AFCARS report?" 30, 2020 were published on Nov.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 6, 2022

The federal government’s Administration for Children and Families, which can take six months just to clear its throat, already has an entire “information memorandum” out. Yet this hypothetical anti-terrorism law already is the law governing the system we call “child welfare.” And it’s not just the usual suspects.

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