NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 19, 2022

A great family defender, Kathleen Creamer of Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, discusses that Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision, another Pennsylvania case , and other crucial child welfare issues, including the harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) on The Imprint podcast. ?

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Child Welfare Monitor

JANUARY 27, 2025

Some states explicitly reported that their screening changes were adopted in order to decrease the number of screened in referrals. Kentucky reported adopting a new SDM screening tool designed to decrease the number of referrals that are “incorrectly accepted for investigation.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

So in 2021, the most recent year for which data are available, when you compare entries into care to impoverished child population, Massachusetts tore apart families at a rate 60% above the national average. The snapshot number – the number of children trapped in foster care on any given day -- is even worse. She said no.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

For children in care and care leaver services, Nottingham retained the requires improvement grade it earned at its last inspection, in 2018. ‘Too many changes of social worker’ for children in care.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

ProPublica reports that The new rules would also restrict states from spending TANF funds on child protective services investigations, foster care or any other programs that don’t meet the fundamental purposes of welfare: strengthening poor families and keeping them together. Sarah Font. But she did not see her mother. she wondered.

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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.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A few years after Lowry was succeeded at CR by Sandy Santana, the rhetoric changed, so did the groups public policy positions they even called for repeal of the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. But would the change in outlook be backed by a change in the groups strategy and litigation?

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