NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Is Pittsburgh’s “child welfare” predictive analytics algorithm running amok? The most highly touted, most far-reaching example of computerized racial profiling in family policing (more accurate terms than “predictive analytics” in “child welfare”) is the one in Pittsburgh. (For Inquiring minds (at the US Dept.

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Community Care

APRIL 21, 2023

The ‘outdated’ legal framework on social care for disabled children in England will be reviewed with a view to making it fairer and more effective. To improve how the law on social care for disabled children fits in with the law relating to children’s social care more broadly.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 28, 2022

The SWESD 2022 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the JOINT WORLD CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: REDEFINING SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE IN A POST-PANDEMIC SOCIETY: SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS AND SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AT A CROSSROADS. Persons with disabilities.

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Shelter, Inc

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The harsh reality is not all children are represented equally in the child welfare system, nor do they have equal outcomes. The same discrimination is also applied to children’s religion, gender, ethnicity, geographic location, poverty, disabilities, and more. ?Why? Biases come in two forms, explicit and implicit.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But, particularly when it comes to substance use, some of these courts exist where so much of the child welfare establishment does, at the intersection of ignorance and arrogance. DOJ has issued a letter ruling that when judges ban such treatment they are violating the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The government will review the local authority designated officer (LADO) role after an inquiry into the abuse of disabled children identified “major failings” in relation to the function. ” Urgent actions .

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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. … The New York Times also has a story. ● Here’s the audio.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2022

The biggest problem with the so-called “child welfare” system is that it has nothing to do with the welfare of children. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) replaced welfare as we knew it. At the start of a case: Take poor people’s money to investigate poor people. While we’re at it, let’s steal the kids’ money, too!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In New York, that state’s Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights is going to launch an investigation into “possible violations of Black families’ civil and constitutional rights by the New York child welfare system.” ? One might think the federal Americans with Disabilities Act would help.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

It happens to foster youth who are entitled to Social Security Disability or Survivor benefits. Only in a system as morally bankrupt as “child welfare” could it be considered acceptable to make children pay an allowance to their substitute parents. It might be legal – though even that is a gray area.

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KVC

APRIL 18, 2024

KVC’s Positive Impact Grows Nationally During the 1980-90s, KVC grew to represent one of the broadest child welfare and behavioral healthcare continuums of care in the nation. We work locally, one child, family and community at a time, while also influencing the fields of child welfare and mental health nationally.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

As the research summarized in NCCPR’s new Issue Paper makes clear, this has backfired – creating a massive child welfare surveillance state that scares families away from seeking help, overloads the system with false reports, trivial cases and poverty cases, and leaves workers even less time to find the few children in real danger.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 23, 2022

The SWESD 2022 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the JOINT WORLD CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: REDEFINING SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE IN A POST-PANDEMIC SOCIETY: SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS AND SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AT A CROSSROADS. – Persons with disabilities.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Female leaders understand that the oppression of all women creates cultural biases that are increased when merged with other identities, including race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, and class. African American Leadership: An Empowerment Tradition in Social Welfare History, edited by Iris B.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This should make clear that: Deprivation of liberty should only be authorised when it is necessary for children’s safety and welfare and not because of a shortage of appropriate accommodation. There should be judicial oversight for any deprivation of liberty and any authorisation must be reviewed every three months.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

They were afraid of social services,” a parent with disabilities (one of the groups most vulnerable to family policing), told The Colorado Sun. With the Indian Child Welfare Act facing a challenge before the U.S. ● “When my kids were growing up, they weren’t afraid of the bogeyman.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

Once again the suffering of poor people will enrich some child welfare establishment group or other. For decades Britain has been imitating America’s worst practices – including massive discrimination against families where a parent has a physical or mental disability. Family policing is one of America’s ugliest exports.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 20, 2022

If you’re relatively new to all of this, take 20 minutes to let Joyce McMillan of JMacForFamilies give you an overview of how the system really works in this podcast from Black Agenda Report: Black Agenda Radio · Child Welfare System Damages Black Children and Families ? Two federal agencies condemned Massachusetts over this.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

And here’s part two , which explains why “creme" is to food what “permanency” is to child welfare: a fake substitute. ● She thinks even aging out can be better not only than returning to their own homes (an outcome to which she’s long been hostile) but even to guardianship with extended family.

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University of Connecticut

JUNE 1, 2022

Mogro-Wilson received her MSW from the University of Michigan, with a focus on practice with children, youth, and families in 2003, followed by her PhD from the University at Albany, School of Social Welfare in 2007.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

All over the country, states and localities have been swiping Social Security Survivor and Disability benefits to which some foster youth are entitled. And if you want to know more about the lawyer who won, check out Eli Hager’s story for ProPublica and The New Yorker. Even Scrooge didn’t go this far.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

. ● Also in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh’s highly-touted predictive analytics family policing algorithm reportedly is under investigation for bias against the disabled. Sarah Lorr’s new article about pervasive family police discrimination against disabled families, reviewed here (with a link to the full article) by Prof. Josh Gupta-Kagan.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

In the wake of the stunning – in a good way – Supreme Court decision on the Indian Child Welfare Act, ProPublica talks to Kathryn Fort , director of the Indian Law Clinic at the Michigan State University College of Law about how to make sure the law is enforced. One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act.

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Shelter, Inc

JANUARY 17, 2023

include youth in the welfare or juvenile justice system, runaway and homeless youth, undocumented immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, and people with substance use disorder. According to the White House, the people most vulnerable to human trafficking in the U.S.

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Social Work Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Q: Why did you decide to become a social worker and work in the child welfare arena? A child welfare social worker meets with her clients. Williams currently lives in Charlotte, NC and serves as an Employment Success Manager for PRIDE Industries, which provides employment opportunities for individuals living with disabilities.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

of a set of 11 indicators of need or risk, including mental health issues, disability, self-harm or going missing. Separate Nuffield FJO figures have shown that applications for DoL orders now appear to be considerably higher than those for secure accommodation orders, the legal basis for a welfare placement in a secure home.

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Community Care

APRIL 24, 2023

Government safeguarding advisers set out a series of recommendations for improving care, social work practice, commissioning and regulation in residential services for disabled children and those with complex needs, in a report last week. ”

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

APRIL 26, 2022

The SWESD 2022 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the JOINT WORLD CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: REDEFINING SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE IN A POST-PANDEMIC SOCIETY: SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS AND SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AT A CROSSROADS. Persons with disabilities.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The local authority was satisfied that it was necessary to do so to safeguard or protect the child’s welfare. She said he was particularly concerned about not wanting to infect a disabled child in his current placement. No ‘carte blanche’ for authorities.

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Community Care

MARCH 7, 2023

Confidentiality concerns regarding child In ruling against disclosure, Judge Ahmed found that it was “very likely that [Z’s] welfare would be adversely affected, and her life changed in important respects” by the judgment’s disclosure. She also said that other factors in the Re C checklist pointed in favour of disclosure.

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KVC

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

If you are in another state, please contact your nearest state child welfare agency office. If you are in one of the states where we provide foster care, contact our teams directly: Kansas , Nebraska , Kentucky or West Virginia. You might find this AdoptUSKids state directory helpful. Attend or Sponsor a KVC Event.

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Social Work Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Written from a modern, pluralist perspective, the text shows why economists and policymakers disagree about regulations, social welfare programs, government spending, and tax policies designed to address these economic problems. Such evidence can be crucial for justifying budgets, projecting needs, and writing grant proposals.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

Leftover social care reforms MHA reform: this would reform the 1983 act to lower the thresholds for detention in hospital and community treatment orders and exclude autistic people and people with learning disabilities from being detained for treatment without a co-existing mental health condition.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

That’s because it’s meant specifically for those who have read a study concocted by a who’s who of family policing’s “caucus of denial” – those who claim that, somehow, child welfare is magically immune from the racism that infects every other aspect of American life. Therefore “child welfare” isn’t racist.

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The Guardian

MARCH 20, 2025

Latest overpayment figures bring total number falling foul of cliff-edge rules on earnings to 144,000 More than 9,000 unpaid carers looking after ill and disabled loved ones have become the latest to be hit with carers allowance overpayment debts in the past year, prompting calls for ministers to suspend the controversial practice.

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Michigan Social Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

He has been the editor for the journal Child Welfare, director of the Michigan State University School of Social Work, and has served in Michigan on the Governor’s Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect. Diego Bernal, MSW ‘01 Representative, Texas House of Representatives. Bernal was born in South Texas and raised in San Antonio.

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The Guardian

MARCH 15, 2023

The warning came as ministers unveiled a range of measures to try to drive more people back into the workplace, including scrapping controversial “fit for work” tests for disabled claimants and stepping up the threat of benefit curbs against part-time workers.

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