Community Care

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The government must set up a task force to tackle longstanding racial disparities in the adoption system, including by making the workforce more diverse. This was because of an increasing focus on the role of race in identity formation and the challenges of transracial adoptions.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It will if some lawmakers attacking kinship foster care get their way A few months ago on this blog, I posed a hypothetical question to some folks in Oregon. Suppose they took really good care of your child. After all, the kidnappers are the only family your child has ever known! Are you sure? Oh but this is different, you say.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

That false narrative, pushed hardest by those who hate birth parents (and yes, that’s the right word) claims that only adoption guarantees a truly permanent home for a child removed from her or his parents. Partly that’s because adoptions sometimes fail. They also take less time to achieve than adoptions.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care. There is, in fact, a place for government in assisting with children’s wellbeing.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The department calculated that 31,490 children left care during 2023-24, up 3% on the year before, with the average duration of time spent in the care system among leavers declining from a peak of 907 days in 2020-21 to 864 in 2023-24.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

This is the model that’s proven so successful in New York City – where a comprehensive evaluation found that it reduced time in foster care with no compromise of safety. Of all the cases of children forced into Massachusetts foster care in 2021, 63% did not even involve an allegation of substance use.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The harms of removal and sometimes also foster care can produce “worse long-term outcomes than if the child had remained at home” in many cases … But Michigan’s removal statutes do not require courts to balance these harms against the harm that might result from staying home. In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

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 foster care for an SGO over this time, with this figure rising by 10%, from 2,270 to 2,500 over this time.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Saturday marked a tragic milestone – the 25 th anniversary of a law that has harmed millions of children, the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. Mical Raz in The Washington Post: “Our adoption policies have harmed families and children. The Clinton-era Adoption and Safe Families Act passed 25 years ago.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

For decades governments in the United Kingdom, both Labor and Conservative, imported some of America’s wost ideas and practices. Speaking of really awful laws and policies, The Imprint has an overview of efforts to repeal, or at least amend, one of the worst: the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

At long last the federal government has released state and national foster care statistics for the year ending September 30, 2022. It’s not clear if they’re violating regulations the federal government won’t enforce or if the states actually have found a loophole.) When we curb needless foster care, children get safer!

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These figures correlate with the government’s children looked after statistics for March 2020, which showed that the proportion of children in foster care not with a relative or friend had decreased to 57% from 60% in 2018. Yvette Stanley, Ofsted’s national director for social care, said the figures painted a “bleak picture”.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

It singles out for criticism three odious laws, the Adoption and Safe Families Act , the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Multi-Ethnic Placement Act. But still … In 2003, I debated Howard Davidson, the first director of the ABA Center on Children and the Law, before the National Center on Adoption Law and policy.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

Here’s an excerpt: When we consider the Adoption and Safe Families Act, we situate our analysis not only in the elements of the law, but also the dominant imagination that allowed it to exist and survive with very little opposition. Their analysis of the law’s origins is striking.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As it happens, another part of this group's approach is the blue pinwheel imagery that Pennsylvania's family policing agency was only too glad to adopt for its report cover.) I heard it from the leader of a group that admits to having practiced it. They say they've stopped. It didn’t happen.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

During that period, state, local, federal government and neighbors stepped in. Those words came in a decision reversing a lower court which allowed a Black child to be taken from his loving extended family and placed with white strangers who tried to adopt him. They were less rushed; their kids were less rushed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

CWLA’s subsequent apology rings hollow, since they continue to support racist laws like the Adoption and Safe Families Act and the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.) In Canada, governments are paying reparations to First Nations for what was done to them. Other nations are doing better.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It’s part of the special issue of Family Integrity and Justice Quarterly devoted to the harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? There is a right way and a wrong way to cover the release of the federal government's annual Child Maltreatment report. It’s called “Stop Blaming the Uncooperative Mother.”

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

In 43 Essential Policies for Human Services Professionals , Gerald O’Brien provides a resource to overcome these challenges, because policy familiarity contributes to social workers’ fundamental understanding of the individuals, communities, institutions, and governments they serve.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

. ● 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. Here's one way to do it: In Washington, D.C.,

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Child Welfare Monitor

MAY 13, 2024

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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Landers’ research: “more than 80% of Native American people who were fostered or adopted eventually reunify.” ● In New York, a bill that would allow children continued contact with their parents even after their legal rights to those parents have been terminated has – again – been passed by the State Legislature.

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Beyond Advocacy

AUGUST 7, 2024

The legislation mandates early intervention to keep families intact when possible and reduce the need for foster care. It also strengthens post-adoption services. This is the process of functional governing.” It expands access for tribal communities and provides support systems for the 2.5 Darin LaHood to lead H.R.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And in its report on social care last year, the CMA found that councils “can struggle to collaborate successfully due to risk aversion, budgetary constraints, differences in governance, and difficulties aligning priorities and sharing costs”. It concluded this was unlikely to change without action by central government.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

The Labour Party has made no funded commitments on social care in its general election manifesto, published yesterday. The lack of funded commitments on social care is similar to the position put forward by the Conservatives in their manifesto, published earlier this week.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 14, 2023

“However, we are concerned that the strategy falls victim to the same timid ambitions that are holding back the government’s wider plans for children’s social care.” ” Further boost for foster care recruitment and retention Alongside the kinship strategy, the DfE has also announced an additional £8.5m

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Community Care

MAY 3, 2022

There are twice as many children in kinship care in the UK than there are in foster care, yet this type of care remains largely invisible – to the public and policymakers, but often to professionals too. But to achieve this there needs to be a strategic plan to develop properly resourced kinship care services.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Hierarchy of support Overall, it found that authorities were most likely to support to family and friends foster carers, followed by carers with a special guardianship order (SGO) for the child and then those with a child arrangements order or residence order (CAO/RO) giving them parental responsibility. ” . ”

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Community Care

APRIL 17, 2024

Smith was taken into care as a baby, spending the first 11 years of his life in a foster home before those same carers adopted him. From the age of seven, up until his adoption, he had the same social worker, with whom he remained in contact into his 20s.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The matter originated in a Texas District Court when an adoption petition by a non-Native couple—Chad and Jennifer Brackeen—seeking legal custody of a Native American child was challenged by the Navajo Tribe. The District Court ruled in favor of the Brackeens, declaring ICWA unconstitutional. All other powers belong to the states.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Practitioners will be supported to develop, and be assessed against, the “skills and knowledge needed to support and protect vulnerable children”, and, in years three to five, to develop into “expert practitioners” This will be tested by a group of early adopter councils with a view to full implementation in 2026.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 23, 2023

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 see also this story from Searchlight New Mexico, which focuses on a Native American child adopted by a well-meaning white couple.

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Child Welfare Monitor

APRIL 25, 2025

Ten-year-old Begidu Morris died more than three years ago of horrific child abuse by his parents, who adopted him from Ethiopia. Begidu and his biological sister were adopted from Ethiopia by the Morrises, when he was about two years old. Begidus sister was re-adopted by another family in Florida in 2019.

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Social Work Haven

JUNE 15, 2023

As I embark on this transformative journey, I am committed to adopting a strength-based approach—one that recognises and nurtures the inherent potential within each individual. Strength-Based Approach One of the key aspects of being a social worker is adopting a strength-based approach.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Similarly, “permanency” sounds like permanence – but often it is not; not when it is defined as adoption and only adoption. As I discussed in a previous post, the worst part of Font’s “report” is what it says about her attitude toward older foster youth – she seems to think they need money more than love.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 28, 2023

KABB-TV in San Antonio reported this week on the tragic death of 16-year-old Mia Morales who died in a car crash after running away from a makeshift foster care placement. It’s remarkable how many tragic failings of Texas foster care – and the failed attempt to fix it with a McLawsuit – are illustrated by this one case.

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