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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.” Greg Abbott.
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Remember the children who were torn from their parents and thrown into fostercare because the parents committed the crime of Driving While Black? 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 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. But even if you believe the police version, this case was cause to find the family housing – not to throw the four year old into kinship fostercare.
Then we’ll let them into the homes of families let them, interview everyone, assess those families, spend an average of 12 minutes every working day investigating the case - and then they can effectively decide if the child will go into fostercare. They can effectively decide if the child stays in fostercare.
KDVR-TV reports on a bill that would replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. ● . ● Another key problem with child abuse reporting: allowing people to report with total anonymity. That, too, is under scrutiny in Colorado.
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. She complains about kinship fostercare in part because relatives “live on the economic margins” [p.157]
In the Albany Times Union , Madelyn Freundlich, policy research consultant for the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York writes in support of legislation that would replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse and neglect with confidential reporting.
Now The Imprint reports on how the same agency used the same tactics to undermine legislation to replace anonymous child abuse reporting with confidential reporting. 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. ●
Other Behavioral Issues Adopted children, whether from birth parents or the fostercare system, may exhibit behavioral issues as they adjust to their new family dynamics. This could include therapy, where the child can express their feelings in a safe and confidential environment.
The bill also curbs the abuse of "hidden fostercare" - a practice Texas uses at what may be the highest rate in the country. Also in Texas: ● The governor signed the law described here , which partially replaces anonymous child abuse reporting with confidential reporting. That’s a full Miranda.
But the horrors about fostercare in Kansas are not coming from kinship caregivers. Check out how stranger-care has been going in recent cases. Now, KDVR-TV reports, she’s persuaded a state legislator to introduce a bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. ●
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 fostercare systems. Confidentiality: Maintaining strict confidentiality is essential. They keep their promises and follow through on commitments.
A 12-year-old Native Alaskan girl in fostercare says she wants to commit suicide. But this time a judge was so outraged that he refused to let the agency hide its incompetence behind confidentiality. I have a blog post about it. --A As the Anchorage Daily News reports that is exactly what Alaska’s family police agency did.
The referral will do no good, of course, because, though false reports are illegal in Texas, anyone can evade the law by making the call anonymously, something that won’t change until anonymous reporting is replaced with confidential reporting. This case has significant implications well beyond Pittsburgh.
Even these two excellent stories leave two key questions unanswered - as almost always happens when reporters write about family policing in New York Brooklyn Defender Services has filed a lawsuit against the New York City family police agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, on behalf of a family that has been subjected to repeated, traumatic (..)
If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. She would move into fostercare, which Janell’s young mind imagined as a form of jail. WFTS-TV’s story includes comment from NCCPR. ● Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m.
Also pending before the New York State Legislature: A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. Though not mentioned in the story, this is because a foster-care panic in Illinois has led to a sharp increase in needless removals.) Two months later he was dead.
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.
The Tennessee Legislature is considering an important change for the better in child welfare law: Replacing anonymous reporting to the state’s child abuse hotline with confidential reporting.
The Tribune is still pushing the Big Lie of American “child welfare” – the idea that any bill that protects children from being traumatized by the family police and forced into the hellscape of Texas fostercare is a “parents’ rights” bill that supposedly comes at the expense of child safety.
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.
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.
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