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They include a director of children’s services (DCS) who led his authority to two consecutive outstanding ratings and a head of service who has championed the voting rights of people with learning disabilities. There was also recognition for the former head of a university social work centre and a regional adoption agency lead.
They’re dumped into institutions by family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) when they run out of foster homes because they take so many children needlessly. As she testified: “For children who do end up in fostercare, we cannot allow them to grow up in cold facilities that act like kid prisons.”
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Or, as bad or worse, it might go to an outfit like Chapin Hall (see the item below about whitewashing abuse in fostercare). There are horrifying details about the sexual assault of two young teenagers in Texas fostercare. . That's certainly a step forward. One is 16, the other 13.
We have forced millions into fostercare where the rate of abuse is, in fact, vastly higher than in the general population and, independent studies show , vastly higher than agencies admit in official figures. And did it make children safer? That failure should surprise no one. So, how did that work out?
Let’s start by looking ahead to Saturday – it’s time for National Adoption Day! If termination of parental rights is child welfare’s equivalent of the death penalty, then what is Adoption Day but a macabre celebration of family executions ? Balloons at the courthouse! They tried to shut out opponents like J.
In that article, Alexandra Travis writes about her own experience with family destruction and then asks: Tell me, if you knew our story, would you still advocate so fiercely for adoption and termination? One of those ways is using visits between children in fostercare and their parents as a weapon.
. ● Speaking of great journalism, on The Imprint podcast Joe Shapiro of NPR discusses his investigation into states forcing families to pay ransom to family policing agencies to get their children back from fostercare. Department of Justice concerning possible bias against the disabled. Now the family is suing. ●
Department of Justice for possible discrimination against disabled families. But like everything else in family policing, the reasons children wind up in fostercare are arbitrary, capricious, cruel – and subject to racial and class bias. When, finally, independent researchers got to evaluate it they found racial bias.
. ● Also in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh’s highly-touted predictive analytics family policing algorithm reportedly is under investigation for bias against the disabled. Sarah Lorr’s new article about pervasive family police discrimination against disabled families, reviewed here (with a link to the full article) by Prof. Josh Gupta-Kagan.
There was also recognition for current or former directors of children’s and adults’ services and a leading disability campaigner. It has been implemented in fostering, adoption and residential care placements in a number of local authorities.
From The Conversation : An exploration of another group that faces discrimination in the family policing system: the disabled. Gavin Newsom signed a bill to stop county family police agencies from stealing foster youth’s Social Security survivor benefits. But they will remain free to steal their disability benefits. (A
.” So, in addition to helping states safely prevent the need for children to enter fostercare in the first place, we’ve helped states recruit and train thousands of relatives and foster families, ensuring children live in the context of a close-knit family.
Remember, family police agencies are supposed to conduct intensive searches to find relatives to care for these children. When the agency sought to persuade the foster parents to adopt, here’s what the foster father says he was told: “Family will come out of the woodwork when we do this. But] We’ll handle them for you.”
. ● Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ● One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act.
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They cited leaders’ decision to increase social worker numbers – including by creating a new looked-after children team and creating a dedicated independent reviewing officer post for care leavers – despite funding constraints. Family safeguarding model ‘replicable and effective’ in cutting care numbers and protection plans.
And we wound up with hideous laws like the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. But sometimes, being “nice” is just passive aggression – as when presenters at a garden party “conversation circle” took almost the entire time for themselves and disabled the chat. We’re not making that mistake again.
Department of Justice for bias against the disabled. s second claim is that once reported and screened in for investigation, workers are no more likely, and possibly a little less likely, to “substantiate” an allegation and place a child in fostercare when the family is Black than when the family is white. out Drake et al.’s
During the pandemic, despite risk to themselves, they continued to go out every day to ensure older and disabled people could live safely and well at home, acting as a lifeline for many.”
Time is running out to submit comments to the Federal Register regarding Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments that representative payees receive for children and youth in fostercare. The money is used to reimburse states for the cost of fostercare, a practice restricted by federal law.
Jacque started her career working with developmentally disabled children, youth and adults. Throughout her years with the department, she went on to work with youth in residential facilities, families involved in child welfare, foster parents, and children and youth in fostercare before moving on to supervisory and administrative roles.
Though not mentioned in the story, this is because a foster-care panic in Illinois has led to a sharp increase in needless removals.) The state allowed the couple to retain custody of their foster children and later adopt them despite nearly 20 complaints of misconduct. Two months later he was dead.
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.
According to a story about the study in The Hill : States with more generous SNAP policies — and therefore more program participants — had fewer children involved in Child Protective Services (CPS) and fostercare, according to the 14-year nationwide survey, published in JAMA Network Open on Wednesday. The Wausau (Wis.)
. “Alongside these changes, we will build consensus for the longer-term reform needed to create a sustainable national care service. ” Fair pay agreement not costed Labour said its proposed fair pay agreement would set “fair pay, terms and conditions, along with training standards” for adult social care staff. .”
In the years since, some reliably blue states and localities rushed to adopt algorithms. Department of Justice is investigating whether AFST is biased against the disabled. The places that adopt them would never, ever use them as a tool to investigate families. But even this isn’t enough for Putnan-Hornstein and Vaithianathan.
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 fostercare caseloads and refer families to community supports.
We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than fostercare or massive surveillance, its also safer. The headline on the story is: White West Virginia couple accused of adopting Black children and forcing them to work as slaves.
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