KVC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In recent years, some Kansas children in foster care have ended up sleeping in child welfare offices overnight because there were no relatives, foster homes or care centers available. What’s behind this national foster care placement crisis? But this isn’t what foster care is for. Let’s rewind.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“We are also investing £27m to deliver a fostering recruitment and retention programme so foster care is available for more children.” Call for more urgent government action However, council and fostering leaders urged more and faster government action to tackle foster care shortages in the light of the Ofsted data.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

In fact, the control the government demands can predate conception. But the worst harm is that inflicted on children forced at best to endure needless harassment and surveillance by family police agencies, at worst denied the chance to live with their own loving fathers and instead consigned to the chaos of 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

APRIL 15, 2025

Part One deals with widespread abuse in foster care. It is the best examination Ive seen by any news organization into the horrors of hidden foster care. So its good to see, as The Imprint reports , that the Government Accountability Office is getting into the act. Be sure to read it to the end. Why is that here?

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Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Further delay to the reform of children’s social care will prolong the “crisis” the sector is in and increase costs, charities have warned in response to the Budget. However, this was dependent on the reforms being implemented from 2023-24. “Further delays will see [costs] escalate.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 9, 2024

They’re dumped into institutions by family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) when they run out of foster homes because they take so many children needlessly. As she testified: “For children who do end up in foster care, we cannot allow them to grow up in cold facilities that act like kid prisons.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 19, 2025

So even more children will be needlessly torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of foster care. More will be abused in foster care. West Virginia Watch, for example, repeatedly claims that the states foster-care-capital-of-America status is mostly because of drug abuse.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

The latest McLawsuit reinforces ugly stereotypes about who loses children to foster care. ● s childhood had the hallmarks of trauma and instability that DCFS is accustomed to seeing in children entering foster care, including early childhood abuse and neglect, family violence, frequent moves, and unstable placements.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The federal government has released state-by-state data for the number of children taken from their parents in FFY 2021 (yes, they always run about a year late). Nationwide, entries into foster care declined by five percent. And NCCPR has updated our rate-of-removal index. You remember, right?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It is incredibly traumatic when government agents enter a person’s home and there’s the looming threat of a child removal,” [founder David] Shalleck-Klein told the Law Journal. And of course, the harm is enormous when government agents do remove a child from a parent … sometimes in the middle of the night, in incredibly traumatic ways.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Jahnine Davis’s role will involve supporting and challenging councils to improve practice, amplifying children’s voices and those of under-represented groups and championing kinship care within government policymaking.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The algorithm doesn’t tell investigators when to tear children from the arms of their families and consign them to foster care; that’s left to humans. She’s still in foster care. *-In The investigators can’t be biased by this because they don’t even know the risk score.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 7, 2022

867 because I object to the removal of the safeguards which now protect the rights of parents whose children have been placed in foster care. The temporary best interests of the child may be to move him or her into a foster home. I rise in opposition to the enactment of H.R. First you take their money away.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

S he describes her own experience of retaliation after she complained about one of the private foster care agencies with which ACS contracts, offers an overview of how “predictive analytics” makes things worse, and makes clear we need to dig deeper into how ACS is using it. ? government representatives – all of which they evaded. ?

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Community Care

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Welsh Government has opened a consultation on plans to eliminate profit-making residential and fostering provision for children in care. Dysfunctional’ care market needs overhaul to tackle high prices and scarce placements, says watchdog. Related reading. Some firms ‘profiteering’ from children’s homes, says minister.

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CO4Kids

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Theyre like treasure troves of successful ideas created by government agencies and research institutions to help you make informed decisions. How Clearinghouses Help You Succeed Clearinghouses let communities and government agencies explore what has been tested and proven to work. What Are Evidence-Based Clearinghouses?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Sixto Cancel grew up in foster care, survived the experience and now runs Think of Us , an organization dedicated to changing the system that did him, and so many other children, so much harm. The former lawyer for the family policing agency continues: [Cancel] cites his bad experiences in foster care. …

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

She is the state’s “Child Advocate,” and before that ran a prestigious private agency specializing in adoption and foster care. million – and the state would save more than that in reducing needless investigations and foster care. There is, in fact, a place for government in assisting with children’s wellbeing.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 8, 2023

The study looks at every step of the process, from investigations to how often a caseworker claims a case is “substantiated” to entries into foster care to termination of children’s rights to their parents (a more accurate term than termination of parental rights). A child abuse investigation is not a benign act. Yes, second highest.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

Roberts’ essay for the Summer issue of Dissent , which begins this way: Imagine if there were an arm of the state that sent government agents to invade Black people’s homes, kept them under intense and indefinite surveillance, regulated their daily lives, and forcibly separated their families, often permanently. See also Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Over the next five years, the consortium will launch pilot sites that “give youth an active role when decisions are made about their care, including reuniting them with their birth families or placing them in other legally recognized and permanent arrangements,” according to a press release from the University of Washington School of Social Work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The study found that when COVID-19 forced the city’s family policing agency, the Administration for Children’s Services, to step back and community-run community-based mutual aid organizations stepped up, the trauma of needless investigation and foster care was significantly reduced, with no compromise of safety.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The premise is that because of the “shortage,” children can’t see their parents while in foster care, and families don’t get the guidance they need to jump through all the hoops they must surmount to prove themselves worthy of getting their children back. It’s not like the state can’t afford to step in and provide this money.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

This is the model that’s proven so successful in New York City – where a comprehensive evaluation found that it reduced time in foster care with no compromise of safety. Of all the cases of children forced into Massachusetts foster care in 2021, 63% did not even involve an allegation of substance use.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It will if some lawmakers attacking kinship foster care get their way A few months ago on this blog, I posed a hypothetical question to some folks in Oregon. Suppose they took really good care of your child. Kinship placements also are safer, and kin are less likely to dope up foster children on potent psychiatric medication.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” MacAlister also said that the proposed £25m to improve foster care recruitment and retention over the next two years would not deliver the 9,000 additional carers he said were needed over the next three years. Government as a whole therefore needs to prioritise legislative time and investment for these children.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

As Sankaran and Church point out: any public reporting of the number of adopted children who once again enter foster care is likely an underestimate. Even with these limited data, a recent study found that more than 66,000 adopted children ended up back in foster care between 2008 to 2020, an average of 12 a day.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The harms of removal and sometimes also foster care can produce “worse long-term outcomes than if the child had remained at home” in many cases … But Michigan’s removal statutes do not require courts to balance these harms against the harm that might result from staying home. In contrast, McCormack wrote, when Washington D.C.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

But if government agencies, foundations and institutions actually want to seed transformation, they will need to yield significant power. ● . ● As for what we can do instead of calling the hotline, Nora McCarthy writes in The Imprint about how to build better alternatives. But federal financial incentives make this difficult.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Children are staying longer in the care system due to inequalities in payments to kinship carers, a report has found. However, there was a far smaller rise in the number of children leaving kinship foster care for an SGO over this time, with this figure rising by 10%, from 2,270 to 2,500 over this time.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

Her experience in foster care was far worse. ? Dorothy Roberts has a message for some of our white liberal friends: It's really important for people to reject this myth that children in foster care are there because their parents abused them. I have a blog post about it. ? But Devereux is an old-line nonprofit player. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

? Bad as it is for any child to be torn from their home and consigned to the chaos of foster care, it’s worse for LGBTQ children – the very children now targeted by Texas Gov. Only 17 percent of children enter foster care based on allegations they were physically or sexually abused. Greg Abbott. NCCPR Board Member Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And, by the way, because foster care is so expensive and because, in many cases, the federal government will pay half the cost, this approach also saves money. This also would free up caseworkers to spend more time investigating cases, increasing the chance that they will find the very few children in real danger.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

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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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 28, 2022

The most offensive part is how the story attempts to ignore those who are most vulnerable to this kind of abuse: Public health officials first grew concerned about the problem of multiple medication use, or polypharmacy, a decade ago, when it emerged among young people in foster care and low-income settings.

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