NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Before the news, a note about an upcoming event: The so-called Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act neither prevents nor treats child abuse – rather it reinforces the foundations of the child welfare surveillance state.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 3, 2022

And it touches on multiple vital issues in family policing, including the harm of the so-called Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the dangers of “predictive analytics” algorithms in “child welfare.” This case has significant implications well beyond Pittsburgh.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 20, 2025

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. Her confidential medical records were obtained and read by strangers without her knowledge. in which the [child welfare agency] citing concerns about A.V.s knowledge.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 30, 2023

But this time a judge was so outraged that he refused to let the agency hide its incompetence behind confidentiality. Every few years Child Trends takes on the Herculean task of trying to figure out exactly how much every state spends on “child welfare,” where that money comes from and what it’s spent on.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. Confidentiality: Maintaining strict confidentiality is essential. They keep their promises and follow through on commitments.

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Social Work Haven

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Additionally, many websites, such as the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare website, provide access to a wide range of resources related to social work. Confidentiality – Social workers should protect clients’ right to privacy by keeping confidential any information they are entrusted with.

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Child Welfare Monitor

MARCH 16, 2025

by Marie Cohen Recognizing implicit bias in mandated reporting training is a national focus for addressing racial inequity in child welfare. The video introducing the section explains that implicit bias harms “families of color” in the child welfare system, without providing any evidence of such harm.

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All For Kids

MARCH 10, 2025

Provide them with a detailed account of your observations and concerns about the childs safety, follow their instructions, and cooperate fully during the investigation process. Child Protective Services (CPS): Research the contact information for the local CPS office or child welfare agency.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 11, 2023

The state capitol in Austin What the Tribune (and the Dallas Morning News ) can’t face is that after decades of seeing the system that calls itself “child welfare” do enormous harm to children, people across the political spectrum are coming together and finding common ground. But it still has a long way to go.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Police officers and child welfare caseworkers were ordering a woman to open her front door. Here’s how ProPublica describes one encounter: It was 5:30 a.m. Flashlights beamed in through the windows of the ground-floor apartment in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. When she did, the first thing she saw was that the police had their guns drawn.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 30, 2023

A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting has passed the Texas Legislature. I have written often about how the entire debate over what to do about child welfare has been poisoned by “health terrorism,” the misrepresentation of the true nature and scope of a problem in the name of “raising awareness.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is the text of the first of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Most Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs call themselves CASA programs – as you’d expect. That’s not because they want to hurt children, of course.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This is the text of the NCCPR’s presentation at the 2024 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare What the cover says How many times have we heard it or read it? Well, it helps if your definition of abuse includes anything that might affect a child’s well-being.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Two cases illustrate the need for those good, bipartisan "child welfare" laws the Texas Legislature has been passing lately. The story also quoted a state legislator opposed to a new Texas law that, in most cases, replaces anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse and neglect with confidential reporting.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

They should do what Texas did and largely replace it with confidential reporting, in which the accused still doesn’t know the name of the accuser, but the family police do. ● The whole ordeal never could have started if not for the fact that, like 48 other states, Colorado allows anonymous reporting.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Family members were commonly used instead, with implications for confidentiality. However, it also found that “the lack of information sharing for child welfare or safeguarding contrasted sharply with well-developed information-sharing processes for immigration control purposes”. Related articles.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

There’s lots to link to, but the two journalists who know the Indian Child Welfare Act – and the case that led up to last week’s decision – best are probably Rebecca Nagle, who produced the This Land podcast about the case – she discusses the decision here – and Nancy Marie Spears of The Imprint , who wrote about the decision here.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Another former foster youth with public policy expertise, Sixto Cancel, wrote a powerful guest essay for The New York Times – and child welfare establishment types promptly did everything they could to subvert it. How good is this? I have a blog post about the efforts at subversion. In other news: ? And finally … ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

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. A lawsuit alleges that one state maintains a secret docket of pregnant women. The state may even seek custody before the children are born. You may be surprised at which state it is.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This side of the child welfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than child welfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. In this video , one of Britains foremost child welfare scholars, Prof. Its not just the United States.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 6, 2023

Also pending before the New York State Legislature: A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. Imagine if we approached someone with uncontrolled diabetes and said, 'Listen, if your baby's born weighing 12 pounds because you have uncontrolled diabetes, you may have child welfare involvement,'" Patrick said.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

So the only real answer is to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting – as Texas has done , though too late to prevent a tragedy. --All All the caller – whoever it was – had to say to trigger an investigation was that the woman smoked marijuana in front of her child – even though marijuana is legal in New Jersey.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The story begins this way: Growing up Latino in Massachusetts carries a greater risk of entering the foster system than anywhere else in the nation, and for those who end up in foster homes — as well as those who are the subject of child welfare investigations — the consequences can be devastating. Please, Mommy.

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Teaching & Learning in Social Work

JANUARY 20, 2021

Penelope, a child welfare worker in Texas, sees the compassion fatigue hitting her colleagues. But child welfare workers are invisible. Aisha, a social worker in the United Kingdom, has made the tough decision to leave her job in the child welfare courts. She feels guilt.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The family policing establishment (a more accurate term than child welfare establishment) has not yet taken me up on that, and Im not about to unilaterally disarm. Not cant tell you the confidentiality laws family police agencies hide behind generally are there because the agencies want them there so they can hide their failings.

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Child Welfare Monitor

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Instead, HHS provided guidance in the form of questions and answers in its Child Welfare Policy Manual (CWPM). There are several federal confidentiality requirements embodied in different laws, and the CWPM does not explain the order of preference. Unfortunately the CWPM leaves many questions unanswered and even adds new ones.

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