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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 28, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Or adopted to another family because critical information was never uploaded to their files? Records that have to be “admitted” into the database [but may not have been] include substance abuse records, visitation records and medical records. Louis Post-Dispatch : It’s foster parents who now have this official freedom.

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“Maybe we're just too damn intrusive": Tracing the take-the-child-and-run mentality that has endangered Massachusetts children for more than a century

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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! Katz did something simple.