Community Care

MARCH 6, 2024

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Jeremy Hunt has found an additional £165m for building and maintaining children’s homes as part of a public sector productivity drive announced in today’s Spring Budget. The government has also pledged to bring forward measures later this year to tackle “profiteering” in the children’s residential sector.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

● Every once in a while I’ve gently childed the group known as “Children’s Rights” for its approach to litigation. But this week, their litigation took a big turn - for the better. They represented the Minneapolis NAACP in filing a federal civil rights complaint alleging pervasive racism in Minnesota family policing. I have a blog post about it, including links to the full complaint and a good story in The Imprint. ● On the Proximity Process podcast Kathleen Creamer, Managing Attorney of the Fam

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University of Connecticut

MARCH 6, 2024

In our democracy, the group with the lowest voting participation rate are formerly incarcerated individuals convicted of a felony — a group representing nearly 20 million adults in the United States. In most states, including Connecticut, this population loses the right to vote while incarcerated but regain it when they return to their communities. However, they vote at very low rates.

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