NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

At last: A group involved in oversight of Maine child welfare that shows a real understanding of the problems. The Maine Child Welfare Advisory Panel (MCWAP) Citizen Review Panel has produced a report with six recommendations. Note that often these programs have the full support of state or local child welfare agencies.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” There are many such groups. Oh, don’t get me wrong.

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Child Welfare Monitor

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

States have been hard-put to devise plans for implementing the new services because the bill was designed to fix a problem that did not exist–the alleged absence of child welfare services designed to help families stay together. ” As the Child Welfare Information Gateway, an information clearinghouse of the U.S.

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National Casa Gal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978 is a federal law that recognizes tribal sovereignty and governs jurisdiction over the removal of Native American (Indian) children from their families.

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Community Care

MARCH 28, 2025

” However, in response, the prime minister merely said the government would “set out the details just as soon as we can”, an answer that has been given repeatedly by children’s minister Janet Daby in response to multiple parliamentary questions.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

Vivek Sankaran, director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University Michigan Law School summed it up perfectly: In many ways, the decision was unexceptional. None of us would want a social worker to be able to search our home based on such flimsy evidence provided by an anonymous report.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

They even acknowledged their own role in “contributing to racism in the legal field” in general and “within the child welfare legal field in particular…” Offhand, I can’t think of an organization that says “establishment” more than the American Bar Association. The topic is “anti-Black systemic racism within the child welfare system.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

More than just a dissent in an individual case, this opinion is a call to transform “child welfare” in Michigan – and everywhere else. is a brilliant dissection of the failings of both law and practice in “child welfare” in Michigan and pretty much everywhere else in America. Raising a child is difficult, even when there is no crisis.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. As she has before, she embraces the Big Lie of American child welfare – that child safety, or the even broader, more amorphous and biased standard of child “wellbeing” - and family preservation are opposites that need to be “balanced.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JANUARY 28, 2025

Interviews with boarding school survivors, child welfare leaders and tribal members reveal a mix of concern and cautious optimism that the work [former Interior Secretary Deb] Haaland set in motion will continue. Child welfares crimes against Native Americans arent just in the past.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

If you’ve followed Massachusetts child welfare at all, you know exactly who: Massachusetts’ Fearmonger-in-Chief, state “child advocate” Maria Mossaides. Unfortunately, much of child welfare operates with a pre- Gault mentality. Enter the Fearmonger-in-Chief Mass. But step one is to stop being fooled by Maria Mossaides.

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CO4Kids

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Back to Blogs Community Blog Child Welfare Blog Using Evidence-Based Clearinghouses Finding the Right Program for Your Community: Why Reinvent the Wheel? Theyre like treasure troves of successful ideas created by government agencies and research institutions to help you make informed decisions. What Are Evidence-Based Clearinghouses?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And so, we are not requiring the government to come in and police them and say this is how you need to raise your children. What accounts for these results? How do we solve child neglect, how do we keep children safe in this country? We give families money. We give families money so they can keep their own family safe.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The number of ways family policing agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) can hurt the children they are mandated to protect is limited only by their imagination – and, unfortunately, this is the one area where they show any imagination at all. In New York, county governments (and New York City) run family policing.

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2025

The purpose of the FGDM meeting is to enable a childs family network to meet to discuss the welfare needs of the child and to make a proposal in response to concerns about the childs welfare. The duty does not apply if the local authority determines that it would not be in the childs best interests.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Often, when I single out for criticism particular stories about “child welfare” – or as it should be called family policing, it’s because the reporter never bothered to even speak to parents who have had their children taken, or to lawyers for such parents. 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 9, 2024

It turns out, Paris Hilton knows more about "residential treatment facilities" than at least one self-proclaimed "child welfare scholar." By pretending that this industry has nothing to do with his sacred, beloved “child welfare” system. And apparently [if Barth is right] the entire federal government got its regulations wrong, too.

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Child Welfare Monitor

JULY 8, 2024

Year after year, states and the federal government continue to release annual data showing a decline in the number of children in foster care, congratulating themselves on keeping families together. Of course the supporters of FFPSA ignored this basic fact and claimed the legislation would revolutionize child welfare!).

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Capitol Visitor Center, First Street and East Capitol Street, Washington, DC 20515, to explore legislative remedies should the Supreme Court overturn the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). They urged the Supreme Court to “uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act’s constitutionality in all respects.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 7, 2022

The big liberal “child welfare” groups, the Child Welfare League of America, the one that now calls itself “Social Current” and the Children’s Defense Fund, among others, were just fine with it. But, I do not believe, that move justifies the national Government to establish adoption as a penalty due to poverty of the parents.

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Community Care

MARCH 26, 2025

Over three million families will lose an average of 1,720 per year in real terms by 2029-30, as a result of proposed changes to disability and incapacity benefits, the government has estimated. In today’s spring statement , the government said that the 50 per week rate for new claimants would also be frozen until 2029-30.

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Community Care

MAY 2, 2024

The next government should take forward reform of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) and implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) in its first 100 days in office, the incoming Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) president has said. Labour has said it will take forward the reform, if elected.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

That mean old state government makes us do it! But sheesh, all that whining! Over and over again he offers the same response: It’s not my fault! And yet, Dannhauser ignored the obvious solution. That should make us wonder if he really just wants to keep things as they are.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

” Councils’ concerns over impact on care system However, the Welsh Local Government Association, while voicing support for the bill’s ambitions, raised concerns about its impact on the care system. . Under all four models, there are no dividends paid to shareholders or members and surpluses must be reinvested in services.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The Children’s Charities Coalition issued the message after the government indicated that “fundamental reform” of the sector would be implemented from April 2026 at the earliest, in its Budget document, published yesterday. However, this was dependent on the reforms being implemented from 2023-24.

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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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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

MAY 31, 2024

The International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), the International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) and the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), are proud to announce the upcoming Global Social Work Conference; #SWSD2026.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Here's step one: Right now, we're seeing the child welfare establishment respond to calls for abolition by talking about "system transformation." But if government agencies, foundations and institutions actually want to seed transformation, they will need to yield significant power. ●

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KVC

MARCH 30, 2022

While Black children make up 14% of the United States child population, they account for 20% of those entering the child welfare system. Consider following your state’s government agency responsible for providing child welfare services. Minority children ar e overrepresented in foster care in America.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A “parallel to the care system” for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, under which they would be accommodated by ministers, is to be be scrapped by the government. Under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022, the government can specify scientific checks that may be used as part of age assessments.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

Abdurahman also moderated this international conference panel, Abolishing the Child Welfare System (and its Algorithms!) The Imprint reports on a United Nations committee in Geneva that heard testimony about the racism that permeates the American child welfare system and asked tough questions of U.S. with panelists Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Is Pittsburgh’s “child welfare” predictive analytics algorithm running amok? The most highly touted, most far-reaching example of computerized racial profiling in family policing (more accurate terms than “predictive analytics” in “child welfare”) is the one in Pittsburgh. (For Inquiring minds (at the US Dept.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The government is not expecting a significant rise in social care referrals from introducing a duty on professionals to report child sexual abuse. In 2022-23, CSA perpetrated by an adult was identified as a risk factor following 18,810 children in need assessments (3.7%

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

In the decades, indeed in the centuries before passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act, U.S. child welfare” policy toward Native Americans fit that definition. ICWA is often described as the “gold standard” for “child welfare” law and policy. It’s not as if anyone tried to hide it.

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Community Care

JANUARY 15, 2025

Most directors reported increasing demand for children’s services from poor quality housing, homelessness and families experiencing poverty as a result of welfare reforms. The ADCS is very supportive of the rules, but have called on the government to go further, by banning project teams outright for case-holding social work.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 16, 2022

Dorothy Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania, a member of NCCPR’s Board of Directors, just wrote a book called Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. The first, Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare was published 20 years ago. She’s right.

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The International Association Of Schools Of Social

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) and The International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) are co-sponsoring a vital online side-event focused on fostering inclusive communities and addressing barriers to social participation.

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