NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

And it’s important to draw a distinction between that one element of government – the family police – and government as a whole. I think government can play a huge, constructive role in promoting the well-being of children. I am a lifelong tax-and-spend liberal and proud of it. So, how did that work out?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Also in Texas: ● The governor signed the law described here , which partially replaces anonymous child abuse reporting with confidential reporting. The bill also curbs the abuse of "hidden foster care" - a practice Texas uses at what may be the highest rate in the country.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

Now The Imprint reports on how the same agency used the same tactics to undermine legislation to replace anonymous child abuse reporting with confidential reporting. One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. “It in contrast, passed bills to do both. Here's one way to do it: In Washington, D.C.,

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Staff and volunteers working with children will face a duty to report child sexual abuse they are aware of, the government announced yesterday. Government mandatory reporting plan The Home Office said that it would introduce mandatory reporting of CSA through amendments to the current Criminal Justice Bill.

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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.

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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. He was institutionalized. He ran away, and he died.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 11, 2023

The most recent data are old, but they indicate more than 60% of Texas placements occur this way – and they’re not even included in the figures Texas reports to the federal government, or to the public, as entries into care. That is, the accused still won’t know who accused them but, in most cases, the family police agency will.

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