Adoption Disability Foster Care Government 
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”.
Community Care
JANUARY 5, 2023
Social care leaders from across local and central government and provider bodies have been recognised in the New Year Honours as the sector battles one of the toughest winters in many years.
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 20, 2022
In that article, Alexandra Travis writes about her own experience with family destruction and then asks: Tell me, if you knew our story, would you still advocate so fiercely for adoption and termination? One of those ways is using visits between children in foster care and their parents as a weapon.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
JUNE 28, 2023
. ● Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ● One of her recommendations: Repeal the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. Here's one way to do it: In Washington, D.C.,
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 3, 2023
Department of Justice for possible discrimination against disabled families. But like everything else in family policing, the reasons children wind up in foster care are arbitrary, capricious, cruel – and subject to racial and class bias. When, finally, independent researchers got to evaluate it they found racial bias.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 11, 2022
And we wound up with hideous laws like the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. But sometimes, being “nice” is just passive aggression – as when presenters at a garden party “conversation circle” took almost the entire time for themselves and disabled the chat. We’re not making that mistake again.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.
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