Administration Confidentiality Foster Care 
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. She complains about kinship foster care in part because relatives “live on the economic margins” [p.157] Safety, permanency, well-being.”
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
But when The Imprint asked, out came the standard-issue lie: A spokesperson for New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services told The Imprint that her agency is unable to publicly discuss individual cases. When ProPublica asked about the specifics of the case and the agency's response, ACS just ignored those questions.
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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. For those on it, it is alleged, this state will rely on a network of informers to plunder confidential records and spy on any mother they deem high risk.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 30, 2024
Or the judge who wouldnt return the children because these children have lived in unstable living arrangements long enough dooming the children to be split from each other into separate foster homes, moved from placement to placement to the point that two of them had to spend a night in a family police agency office.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. One of those two things has now prompted the Biden Administration to propose regulations to curb this practice. WFTS-TV’s story includes comment from NCCPR. ● Sarah Font. she wondered.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JUNE 6, 2023
--All you had to do was read between the lines to see that when New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, claimed if favored letting families they investigate know their rights, they were lying. Now, thanks to some great reporting by ProPublica, you no longer need to read between the lines.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.
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