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Foster Care in America: Realities, Challenges and Solutions

KVC

Whether foster care seems like something you’re called to or your are simply curious to learn more, you’re in the right place. On any given day, nearly 407,000 children are in foster care in America. The primary goal of foster care is reunification. The Statistics: Children in Foster Care.

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Is this family police agency leader really bragging about misleading the public?

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

According to Virginia Public Media : Avula noted Virginia’s rate of placement with relatives is less than half of the national average — a statistic he said is skewed by the fact that local social services departments in the state prioritize informal placements with relatives before sending a child into the foster care system.

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Adoption workforce must become more diverse to help tackle racial disparities, says Lords report

Community Care

The government must set up a task force to tackle longstanding racial disparities in the adoption system, including by making the workforce more diverse. Lack of diversity in adoption workforce and panels . The adoption workforce, and adoption panels, are insufficiently diverse.”

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New Jersey’s claim of declining child maltreatment: ingenuous or disingenuous?

Child Welfare Monitor

But it turns out the authors took as much care with the substance of their commentary as with their capitalization and spelling. New Jersey is one of many states that is increasingly using a practice called “kinship diversion.”

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AFCARS report is out at last: At first glance, the numbers are encouraging

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

At long last the federal government has released state and national foster care statistics for the year ending September 30, 2022. It’s not clear if they’re violating regulations the federal government won’t enforce or if the states actually have found a loophole.) When we curb needless foster care, children get safer!

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Fostering system at risk of reaching ‘breaking point’, warns Ofsted

Community Care

These figures correlate with the government’s children looked after statistics for March 2020, which showed that the proportion of children in foster care not with a relative or friend had decreased to 57% from 60% in 2018. Yvette Stanley, Ofsted’s national director for social care, said the figures painted a “bleak picture”.

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Colorado Juvenile Parole Board (JPB) Seeking Applications to Fill One Public At-Large Seat

CO4Kids

Applicants must not be employees of the state government.