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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. What could be better for a child like that than to ditch her in a hospital for a week, all alone, without telling her family, or anyone else, where she is? I have a blog post about it. --A That’s not unusual.
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. One state allegedly maintains a secret docket of pregnant women. to support its actions.
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]
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.
Also pending before the New York State Legislature: A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. It involves a nine-year-old girl trapped in a psychiatric hospital only because the state family police agency had no place to put her. Now check out the new twist, as reported by WBBM-TV in Chicago.
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.
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.
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. For example, according to the lawsuit discussed here , North Carolina took away the children of one mother because she was hospitalized with cancer. Have you noticed?
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