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Child Welfare Monitor
JANUARY 10, 2025
The number of children entering foster care increased for the first time in over ten years. There was a drop in in-home case openings but a similar increase in foster care placements during the year. But the number of children being served in their homes decreased by 50 while the number in foster care increased by 49.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 18, 2022
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a scathing rebuke to Philadelphia’s family police agency, the Department of Human Services, rejecting the idea that its caseworkers are effectively exempt from the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and a similar clause in Pennsylvania’s constitution.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Department of Human Services, went to great lengths to spin the results and direct readers toward the spin instead of the reviews themselves. Though generally the reviews were favorable, the reviewers’ concerns were so serious that the agency that commissioned the reviews, the Allegheny County, Pa., That’s hardly nothing.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 27, 2022
And, precisely because most cases we think of when we hear the words “child abuse” are nothing like the horror stories and far more like the case of Logan Marr, the data show that, almost always, family preservation is safer than foster care. You can read about those data here and here. See above for the links.) Source: U.S.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 6, 2022
Roberts’ interview with Boston Review. Roberts, Kassandra Frederique, executive director of Drug Policy Alliance and Dr. Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor ; (the book the Allegheny County Department of Human Services hopes you will never read!)
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JANUARY 6, 2022
Maine's first child welfare ombudsman, Dean Crocker, understood the lessons from the tragic death of Logan Marr, who was taken when her family poverty was confused with "neglect" and killed in foster care. She issues reports with shamefully shoddy methodology that throw gasoline on the fires of foster-care panic.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2024
Roberts' work and a link to their interview with her for their podcast. Vermont’s human services agency continued to send teens there — even after the incidents. Not only for me personally, but for all the people, especially Black women, who’ve been devalued in these systems.”
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