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Seventeen years after we first raised the issue, an ugly little practice that leads to hundreds of needless fostercare placements in Kansas every year finally is getting some attention though far from all of the attention it deserves. Its a special Kansas twist on the ugly practice of hidden fostercare.
Year after year, states and the federal government continue to release annual data showing a decline in the number of children in fostercare, congratulating themselves on keeping families together. percent over the previous year 15.6 percent since 2018. “We
But New York Citys family police agency, the Administration for Childrens Services, charged her with neglect. In fact, the control the government demands can predate conception. gave birth, the newborn tested positive for methadone which had been prescribed to Ms. to control her addiction. The agency didnt stop there.
According to Virginia Public Media : Avula noted Virginia’s rate of placement with relatives is less than half of the national average — a statistic he said is skewed by the fact that local social services departments in the state prioritize informal placements with relatives before sending a child into the fostercare system.
The article aptly describes the Center as a first-of-its-kind organization that intends to engage in affirmative litigation with the [Administration for Children’s Services] —hitting it with lawsuits to potentially hold it accountable for allegedly violating families’ constitutional rights via heavy-handed investigatory and removal tactics. “It
Khadijah Abdurahman, who is both a parent with lived experience dealing with New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services – and a Tech Research Fellow at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. government representatives – all of which they evaded. ?
Jahnine Davis’s role will involve supporting and challenging councils to improve practice, amplifying children’s voices and those of under-represented groups and championing kinship care within government policymaking.
Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.
The Welsh Government has opened a consultation on plans to eliminate profit-making residential and fostering provision for children in care. Dysfunctional’ care market needs overhaul to tackle high prices and scarce placements, says watchdog. Related reading. Some firms ‘profiteering’ from children’s homes, says minister.
The study found that when COVID-19 forced the city’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, to step back and community-run community-based mutual aid organizations stepped up, the trauma of needless investigation and fostercare was significantly reduced, with no compromise of safety.
The premise is that because of the “shortage,” children can’t see their parents while in fostercare, and families don’t get the guidance they need to jump through all the hoops they must surmount to prove themselves worthy of getting their children back. It’s not like the state can’t afford to step in and provide this money.
Children are staying longer in the care system due to inequalities in payments to kinship carers, a report has found. However, there was a far smaller rise in the number of children leaving kinship fostercare for an SGO over this time, with this figure rising by 10%, from 2,270 to 2,500 over this time.
New York City Administration for Children's Services Commissioner Jess Dannhauser Poor Jess Dannhauser. That mean old state government makes us do it! But sheesh, all that whining! Over and over again he offers the same response: It’s not my fault! And yet, Dannhauser ignored the obvious solution.
The New York City Administration for Children's Services Uses Highly Coercive Tactics to Illegally Search Tens of Thousands of Families’ Homes Every Year. Rather they are the headline and subhead that begin a lawsuit against New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services. The family is cooking.
The federal suit was aimed at New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), but for complex legal reasons the issue also wound up before the state’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, which extended its potential impact statewide. (NCCPR’s Vice President was co-counsel for the plaintiffs.)
We’d better be prepared for a surge in child abuse reports and a surge in fostercare, as all those abused children emerge from their homes battered and bruised and are once again seen by all those mandated reporters who can make the call that will rescue them! It didn’t happen.
But it turns out the authors took as much care with the substance of their commentary as with their capitalization and spelling. The data for 2023 have not yet been published by the Bureau, but the figures below represent what New Jersey reported for Federal Fiscal Years (FFY) 2016 to 2022, which ended on September 30, 2022.
Gothamist has real news about what should be called fake Miranda rights – the notices that New York City’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, will give parents when ACS caseworkers pound on their doors.
Applicants must not be employees of the state government. For questions, please contact Lee Ann Brabec, JPB Administrator at leeann.brabec@state.co.us To apply for a seat on the Juvenile Parole Board, complete the Governor’s Office of Boards and Commissions Application and submit a current resume. The application can be found here.
The government has vowed to continue with work initiated by its predecessor to tackle workloads among local authority children’s social workers. The Labour administration has also indicated it will continue reforms started by the Conservatives to improve early help for families and boost the recruitment of foster carers.
From its failure to follow governing laws and ensure due process, to its prioritization of expediency over fairness, humanity, and just outcomes, the family court functions as an arm of state power, rather than a neutral arbiter of fairness and justice. …
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.
And again, Black children are hit hardest, taken into fostercare at a rate 50% above their rate in the Indiana child population. In Indiana in 2022, 85% of the time , when children were thrown into fostercare their parents were not even accused of physical or sexual abuse. The harm isn’t just emotional.
But he also explains how the Florida Legislature, the current administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis and the administration of former Governor Rick Scott skewed financial incentives for the “CBCs” toward holding more children in fostercare and against trying to keep families together.
Here’s what happened: The family police (a more accurate term than “child protective services”) were forced to step back, community-run community-based mutual aid organizations stepped up and the federal government stepped in with the best “preventive service” of all, no-strings-attached cash. In 2019 it happened in 58,217 cases.
“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.
Today: Context for the new study: The Administration for Children’s Services’ own data show that when the agency pulled back, did fewer investigations and took fewer children – child safety improved. ? What all of this usually does is set off a foster-care panic , a sharp sudden surge in removals of children.
The Child Welfare League of America, a trade association for public and private family policing agencies, many of which are paid for each day they hold a child in fostercare, called CAPTA “foundational to the country’s ability to prevent child abuse and neglect.” Nah, just kidding. maybe it’s poverty, but it’s not just poverty.
But typically, they aim to fix poor conditions for children living in fostercare. Legal experts say it is particularly rare for groups of parents, such as those in the Gould case, to seek systemic changes to the investigation and surveillance process, asserting their rights before a fostercare removal.
It’s practically the slogan of everyone in the family policing establishment, from the federal government’sAdministration 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.
New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, desperately wants to keep it that way. Last month, two online news sites published more than 10,000 words about fostercare in West Virginia. Khadijah Abdurahman In other news: ? Not one of those words came from a birth parent.
Two years ago, New York City’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, commissioned a study of racism in the agency. For one, their kids were placed with relatives after a brief stint in fostercare, allowing them to regularly see Clarence and Cal. ACS’ response: Don’t release the report!
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.
Bad journalism by the Miami Herald set off a foster-care panic in Florida. It will challenge systemic abuses of government power that lead to the illegal separation of children from their families. The Biden Administration is proposing some significant changes – for the better – in child welfare finance.
In 10 states,* the investigating and family-separating is a local government function. The reason for that has to do with safety – no, no, not safety for the children, safety for the city family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS).
The federal government effectively nullified his veteran’s mortgage by redlining his neighborhood. Personally, I wish the Magazine has adapted sections closer to the end, which reveal the New York City family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services in all its wretched ugliness. She rebelled by getting into fights.
These Fellows, part of a cohort of a dozen government and nonprofit sector dignitaries, are on an 18-day visit to the United States. Vijayalakshmi Bidari, a career civil servant in India, brings a wealth of experience from her 20 years in the Indian Administrative Service. Department of State.
What this longtime administrator is saying is that the oppressed must always be nice to their oppressors. But when once – just once - someone who the system attempted to shame and blame mercilessly dares to talk back, dares to say that, as a matter of fact, family police aren’t doing God’s work, the commenter says, in effect: Ohhhh, poor me!
Not that we’d ever say we told you so … ● The Biden Administration is working on updating the rulebook by which the federal government defines what kinds of programs are eligible for funding under the federal Family First Act and what standards of evidence they have to meet.
That means that if a parent is thinking of asking for help, such as HeadStart child care, emergency housing, domestic violence support, substance abuse counseling, or Applied Behavior Analysis therapy funded by the state, they should be prepared to deal with [the city’s family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services]. …
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. Oregons governor wants to loosen regulations curing abuse in fostercare because they cant think of any other way to deal with a so-called shortage of placements.
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. Then I know [no one] will ever be able to put us in a foster home again. Why did it happen?
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.
The government has committed 25m to boosting fostercare recruitment and support in England from 2026-28. The money was announced in the government’s spring statement last month , when the Treasury said it would be used to recruit a further 400 fostering households.
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