NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2022

The biggest problem with what should properly be called the family policing system is it does enormous harm to children by tearing them needlessly from everyone they know and love and/or putting their families under an onerous regime of surveillance. That led to the child being thrown into foster care.

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Community Care

MARCH 8, 2023

Councils are referring more children from residential to foster care, independent fostering agencies (IFAs) have reported. Children making significant progress in residential care due to effective therapeutic interventions, making them ready and willing to move to a family-like setting.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

From the story: The Hackneys, who have developmental disabilities, are struggling to understand how taking their daughter to the hospital when she refused to eat could be seen as so neglectful that she’d need to be taken from her home. Justice Department is asking the same question. … I have a post about it on this blog.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. Department of Justice for possible discrimination against disabled families. As is so often the case with these algorithms, they are less prediction than self-fulfilling prophecy.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here’s what they write: Some may argue that because all harm indicators included here (e.g., Two of them, Sarah Font and Emily Putnam-Hornstein, are part of a group that did indeed send a letter – a letter rushing to the defense of a self-proclaimed “race realist” law professor who pals around with Tucker Carlson. On the contrary.

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Child Welfare Foster Care Welfare Justice and Corrections 52

Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Educator : Social workers educate clients about resources, coping strategies, and life skills to enhance their well-being and self-sufficiency. 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.

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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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