NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

Or adopted to another family because critical information was never uploaded to their files? Great news, Missouri parents: The state Department of Social Services says you are now free to smoke marijuana, as long as you’re away from the kids! – Louis Post-Dispatch : It’s foster parents who now have this official freedom.

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Community Care

JUNE 19, 2024

It has been implemented in fostering, adoption and residential care placements in a number of local authorities. Meanwhile, a retired social worker who worked to support Holocaust survivors was given a British Empire Medal (BEM). I am delighted to receive this wonderful honour,” said Finlay.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine! Katz did something simple.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

A bill that would have barred both was vetoed by Newsom last year.) ● He also signed a bill concerning residential treatment, The Imprint reports the new law requires the state Department of Social Services to publicly report how often and why children have been physically restrained or sent to seclusion.

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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

APRIL 17, 2024

He was one of those children whose lives were transformed by a social worker. 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. “I had a really positive experience of social workers,” he says.

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Community Care

JANUARY 5, 2023

Vic Rayner (@vicrayner) December 31, 2022.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than foster care or massive surveillance, it’s also safer. That may help explain how a tragedy like this death in foster care could occur. ● In this blog post, I suggest a better idea.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services. When that happens, social services officials come under fire. Instead, a social worker told Janell that the adults had lied about the dentist. She would move into foster care, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail. Sarah Font. Why had this happened?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

. ● In Hawaii, Honolulu Civil Beat reports, The estate of a 6-year-old Waimanalo girl who died from alleged abuse in perhaps the most notorious child welfare cases in recent Hawaii history is suing her adoptive parents and the state for gross negligence. Her adoptive parents, Isaac and Lehua Kalua, have been charged with murder.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

“These rulings are a step backward for social work, social justice and all the things we’ve been fighting for.” Some see a common effect stemming from the court’s Roe ruling last summer and its three decisions this summer.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2024

The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) agreed that this meant the likelihood of the policy being implemented in October 2025 was “quite low” Commenting on the Labour manifesto, the IFS was also critical of the lack of detail on its plan for a national care service.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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 foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.

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