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Sun.Sep 29, 2024

New York’s structure for screening child abuse reports guarantees one thing: mutually-assured buck-passing. The Legislature should change that.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2018 The State Assembly holds a hearing Oct. 9 that could be a first step in the right direction Last March, the New York City Family Policy Project , an essential resource, and not just for New Yorkers, published a comprehensive report on the harm done by the state’s child abuse hotline, which is run by the state Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS).

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A new start after 60: I became a foster carer at 75 – and it has helped keep me young

The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Patricia Swan thought she might be considered too old to care for young children. But now she and her husband are looking after three siblings under seven Patricia Swan was pottering around at home one day in 2022 when a radio broadcast changed the course of her life. “Normally, the radio is background noise, but when I heard a desperate callout for more foster carers in my local area, I had to do something,” she says.

Sun.Sep 29, 2024

New York’s structure for screening child abuse reports guarantees one thing: mutually-assured buck-passing. The Legislature should change that.

A new start after 60: I became a foster carer at 75 – and it has helped keep me young

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