NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 25, 2022

But just two days after the Parent Map story was published, KFMB-TV in San Diego reported this story: A Marine Corps pilot and his wife are suing the County of San Diego after Child Welfare Services took their seven-month-old son from their home for more than a month after the boy head-butted his mother as he played after breastfeeding.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

? As almost everyone reading this probably knows, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act which The Imprint calls “a bedrock law passed in the 1970s to combat cultural genocide committed against Indigenous families.” ? They were less rushed; their kids were less rushed.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The previous round-up began by comparing a real-life case to the depiction of a dystopian child welfare surveillance state portrayed in Jessamine Chan’s novel The School for Good Mothers Now, Let Grow has a comprehensive comparison between the novel and the real world of family policing. It is not reassuring. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

In an interview with Salon about her new book, Torn Apart , Prof. The propaganda machine around saving Black children from their families has been very effective, and I think there are a lot of white liberals who want to believe this story: We have a child welfare system that's saving Black children from dysfunctional homes.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

In the wake of the stunning – in a good way – Supreme Court decision on the Indian Child Welfare Act, ProPublica talks to Kathryn Fort , director of the Indian Law Clinic at the Michigan State University College of Law about how to make sure the law is enforced. And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

You can read news accounts about the lawsuit in The New York Times , New York Daily News , NY1 News (a video interview), Gothamist , Mother Jones , The Imprint , Courthouse News Service, and Reason Ebony Gould, et. When the mother opens the door, two government investigators are standing outside, loudly demanding to be let inside.

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Social Work Haven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Child Welfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or foster care systems. This may include personal interviews, family histories, and the review of relevant documents. What other roles can social workers do?

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Community Care

APRIL 4, 2024

The Together for children and families practice framework had “a real focus on what matters most to children” and had been “instrumental in promoting practice that is kind, sensitive and respectful”, with children’s welfare and safety at the forefront.

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All For Kids

AUGUST 12, 2024

As the Human Rights Campaign explains, “Public child welfare agencies are government entities that provide a safety net for families. The Waiting Game After you’ve gone through the necessary preparations, interviews and visits from your adoption plan, the only thing left to do is wait for “the call.”

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Ofsted has called on the government to extend its powers to enable it to scrutinise social care groups that run multiple children’s homes. The inspectorate said the change was necessary to fill a “gap in accountability” left by the current regime, in which Ofsted separately inspects children’s homes run by the same provider.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 20, 2025

She became part of a secret docket of pregnant women singled out for intensive government monitoring. Every aspect of her delivery, down to the centimeter, was reported to the government, again without her knowledge. The government attempted to force her to undergo a medical procedure. Unbeknownst to A.V.,

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Social Work Haven

MAY 31, 2023

Social workers can work in different settings, such as schools, hospitals, non-profit organisations, government agencies, and private practice. Policy development, research, and evaluation are also areas where social workers contribute to improving social welfare systems and enhancing understanding of social issues.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Identifying and proactively targeting services to families with no [child welfare services] involvement is a violation of families’ privacy and their rights to parent as they see fit. This would be an overreach in the roles and responsibilities of a government agency. At that point three things happen: ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Police officers and child welfare caseworkers were ordering a woman to open her front door. ACS’ game of misdirection New York is one of 13 states in which local governments run family policing systems with some sort of state supervision. Here’s how ProPublica describes one encounter: It was 5:30 a.m.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 22, 2024

The report describes a pattern of poor conditions and abusive practices that the SFC staff observed by reviewing media articles and company documents, supplemented by interviews with senior leaders in the four companies and visits to several facilities not operated by these companies.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

You can listen to the full interview with Shalleck-Klein and one of the plaintiffs, Shalonda Curtis-Hackett here: They also were interviewed on Inside City Hall on NY1. So the story rightly points out that For decades, class-action lawsuits have been a major vehicle for reform in child welfare systems nationwide.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

“I started this work in 1988,” said Roberts, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school and the author of books including “Shattered Bonds” and “Torn Apart,” both about institutional racism in the child welfare system. “To Roberts' work and a link to their interview with her for their podcast.

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Community Care

MAY 21, 2024

Our interview with Eileen Munro is part of a series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to mark Community Care’s 50th anniversary. And there are chief social workers for children’s and adults’ services within the government and principal social workers for each service in every local authority.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

Maine’s equivalent of the GAO falls for the Big Lie of American child welfare – and the Disney version of how the system works There are many reasons five-year-old Logan Marr died in 2001. But there was another reason: Maine’s embrace of the Big Lie of American child welfare. isn’t reassuring. Caseworkers themselves understand.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than child welfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. Thats why this post to the NCCPR Child Welfare Blog is called All the failures of family policing in a single case - and it's not an unusual case.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Part one of NCCPR’s news and commentary year in review for 2023 America’s massive child welfare surveillance state was built on horror stories. That’s why we’ve long extended an offer to the fearmongers in the child welfare establishment: a mutual moratorium on using horror stories to "prove” anything.

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Community Care

MAY 30, 2022

It has urged the government to set up multi-agency expert units in each area to handle child protection work, to address both issues, with ministers due to respond later this year. with managers and practitioners interviewed for the review admitting there was little consideration of background information. ” Recommendations.

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Community Care

MARCH 19, 2025

Many disabled people are facing benefit cuts in a government plan to save over 5bn a year by 2029-30 and get more people with health conditions into work, announced yesterday. This is based on a submitted form, with accompanying medical evidence, and a face-to-face, phone or video-based interview.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Social workers interviewed for the study also reported that families were staying too long on CIN plans because of the lack of early help provision to refer them on to. Case records also often did not record whether actions had been completed when CIN plans were closed.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 5, 2024

More broadly, health and social care services are struggling to manage the increased demands placed on them from RCRP, introduced last year under an agreement signed by the government and health and policing leaders. Such checks should be carried out by mental health staff instead.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The foster parents in this case didn’t do anything illegal – in fact the placement was authorized by a government agency, and the foster parents probably have the best of intentions. This week, Sixto Cancel, who grew up in foster care and founded Think of Us gave an interview to Youth Today.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The timing can leave parents reeling and unable to contact government offices with questions or objections: If ACS conducts a removal on a Friday night, for example, a judge will not review it until Monday. And here’s part two , which explains why “permanency” is to child welfare as “creme" is to food: a fake substitute. ●

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Time for the token quote from a Black person Some reporters at the Globe seem to have a lot of trouble quoting Black people about child welfare. Here are the sentences: “It’s an extremely biased way of alerting the government to the risk of child maltreatment. Here’s a case in point from 2020. Things haven’t changed much.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The family policing establishment (a more accurate term than child welfare establishment) has not yet taken me up on that, and Im not about to unilaterally disarm. As for North Carolina, what good is giving more power to the state oversight agency when a top official of that agency, interviewed by WRAL, insists the system isnt broken?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Bill Diamond Every state legislature has one: the lawmaker who rushes to “blast” the state or local “child welfare” agency after a child “known to the system” dies. A brief recap For most of the past 25 years, Maine embraced a take-the-child-and-run approach to child welfare. Some survivors disagree. Maine State Sen.

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