NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

New data from Pennsylvania confirm: When America’s child welfare establishment fearmongers predicted that COVID would bring on a “pandemic of child abuse” it was just the usual health terrorism. Then came the corollary: Sure, you can’t see the pandemic of child abuse now – but just you wait until we get back to normal!

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I ask because, in the inside-out upside-down world of family policing (a more accurate term than child welfare), this can happen: An organization can slap one of those boilerplate “black lives matter”- type statements on its website acknowledging that “Today, we understand that the child welfare system is inherently racist.”

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JUNE 27, 2022

As America’s racial justice reckoning finally catches up with “child welfare” – or, as it should be called, family policing – the “child welfare establishment is engaged in its own campaign of reputation laundering. Consider our final example. for decades. PCAA denigrated any notion that poverty is confused with neglect.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Most people, but apparently not one chapter of that most sacred cow in child welfare Court-Appointed Special Advocates. It’s also something that anyone involved with that most sacred cow of child welfare – Court-Appointed Special Advocates -- needs to know. It wasn't black black," she said. "It But it’s not.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 14, 2022

Yet it almost never is challenged by journalists reporting on child welfare. The same is true in cases alleging – and that’s the operative word – child abuse and neglect. Children can be held in foster care for months before a court ever decides if the child was, in fact, abused or neglected.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the Adoption and Safe Families Act have destroyed the lives of millions of children and families. Was that the intent of this poll done by Harris for a group calling itself the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) as part of its new child welfare initiative? But there is. I don’t know.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

Their “study” methodology guarantees most abuse will be overlooked, and their advisory panel consists of extremists who want to expand the child welfare surveillance state while denying any problem with racial bias. If there’s abuse in the foster home the child has to be moved. I don’t think they’ll be fooled.

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Community Care

AUGUST 3, 2023

Widespread concerns over use of hotels The ruling follows widespread concerns about the risks to children placed in hotels, in the light of hundreds going missing, a critical inspection report that raised safeguarding issues and doubts over who was responsible for their care and welfare under the Children Act 1989.

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Community Care

JANUARY 7, 2022

Since 14 December, the Home Office has compelled all British local authorities to sign up to its previously voluntary national transfer scheme (NTS), which enables councils for whom unaccompanied children make up more than 0.07% of their child population to refer children to other authorities. Mandating scheme ‘necessary’.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It’s amazing how much these places, which always claim to need even more money, lavish on making sure the grounds are gorgeous the “cottages” are nicely painted and the lawns are mowed. Mary’s said the child “had assumed the risk of injury.” (The Then they invite public officials on a carefully guided tour. That’s just the start.

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MAY 1, 2023

It’s the same false claim, ignoring the same caveats from the same data source, that misled Kentucky media for years: The “We’re #1 in child abuse!” It’s the same false claim, ignoring the same caveats from the same data source, that misled Kentucky media for years: The “We’re #1 in child abuse!” The odds are roughly 1 in 52.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

● If you can’t just get rid of the so-called Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act – a law that neither prevents nor treats child abuse – at least defund the part that does the most harm, and put the money into the part that has some potential to do good. Each essay adds to already overwhelming evidence that change is necessary.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

It crops up over and over when there’s any story about what family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) do to families. The mother of a second young child is suing, alleging abuse at the same institution. That leaves kiddos that are in need of residential treatment with no place to go.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." I probably don’t even need to mention that the man they hanged was Black.) Except in "child welfare." It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. Even then, reporters condemned it as a “carnival.” (I

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

This morning, I gave a presentation with the above title At the Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare Here is the text of that presentation Have you heard? Poverty and child “maltreatment” interact in two ways. for a child's well being." Poverty is confused with neglect!

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 5, 2022

A longtime "child welfare" establishment apparatchik says the quiet part out loud Most of the time, the columns that longtime “child welfare” establishment apparatchik Paul DiLorenzo, writes for The Imprint , are just dull regurgitations of establishment talking points. A judge has to approve everything we do.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 24, 2022

That’s the current name of a child welfare trade association that co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. Yet none of the recent trips to the reputation laundry from child welfare establishment groups includes support for any proposal that would reduce their power.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Most people, but apparently not one chapter of that most sacred cow in child welfare Court-Appointed Special Advocates. It’s also something that anyone involved with that most sacred cow of child welfare – Court-Appointed Special Advocates -- needs to know. It wasn't black black," she said. "It But it’s not. ?

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

Kelley Fong, a book that combines a scholar’s rigor with a journalist’s eye. -- The Guardian has an excerpt adapted from the book --After the tragic death of a child in Connecticut, Prof. Or will they uphold their commitments to child safety through family preservation? -- Based on her extensive research Prof.

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DECEMBER 26, 2022

Dorothy Roberts’ definitive dissection of racism in family policing: Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. Some might say the novel depicts a dystopian future child welfare surveillance state. We start with three important books: ● First, Prof.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Termination of parental rights is child welfare's "death penalty." I probably don’t even need to mention that the man they hanged was Black.) Except in child welfare. It is the prerequisite to any adoption of a child from foster care. Even then, reporters condemned it as a “carnival.” (I You know the drill.

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JULY 11, 2023

The state capitol in Austin What the Tribune (and the Dallas Morning News ) can’t face is that after decades of seeing the system that calls itself “child welfare” do enormous harm to children, people across the political spectrum are coming together and finding common ground. But it still has a long way to go.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

The Massachusetts Legislature needs to step in and provide the funding to make the approach taken by the Family Preservation Project available in every case. It’s one reason New York City’s rate of removal is well under one-third the rate of Massachusetts, even when rates of child poverty are factored in. And it did the opposite.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

11, 2021 R emember how some of America’s latter-day child savers told us we’ve got to get the kids back in school as soon as possible to protect them from a “pandemic of child abuse” at the hands of their own parents? Actually, you don’t need a long memory for that one – that myth is still being spread.) 14, in Raleigh, Miss.,

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

Massachusetts "Child Advocate" Maria Mossaides Consider the relative positions and power of two women in Massachusetts. Crystal Sorey is the mother of Harmony Montgomery, a child who was taken from her because of her illness – drug use - and ultimately placed with her father. Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Attention child welfare garden partiers: The skunks have arrived Every year, the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse holds a four-day virtual extravaganza featuring more than 100 panels and speakers from around the world. No one should be required to “be nice to people who do despicable things.”

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OCTOBER 30, 2021

Most people, but apparently not one chapter of that most sacred cow in child welfare Court-Appointed Special Advocates. It’s also something that anyone involved with that most sacred cow of child welfare – Court-Appointed Special Advocates -- needs to know. It wasn't black black," she said. "It But it’s not. ?

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

● In what is presented as a news story, the Globe finally acknowledges there’s a controversy over whether mandatory child abuse reporting is a good idea – and then comes down squarely for keeping it. ● The state’s “child advocate” suggests that, under these circumstances, racial bias isn’t a problem at all.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

Remember all those scare stories about how, because COVID-19 prevented overwhelmingly white disproportionately middle-class “mandated reporters” from constantly having their “eyes” on children who are neither, their parents would unleash upon their own children a “pandemic of child abuse” ?

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AUGUST 5, 2022

It’s always some version of: “See, we need to build more places to institutionalize kids!” For starters, she explained Philadelphia’s longstanding dismal status as a child removal outlier: For years, Philadelphia DHS removed children from their homes at one of the highest rates in the nation.

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Community Care

MAY 31, 2022

They would also take over councils’ current duty to take steps to secure enough suitable accommodation locally for children in care, consistent with their welfare (“the sufficiency duty”). “Taking back control” of care markets. “Overwhelmingly, local authorities and IFAs work well together. .”

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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. The office also needs a more representative Board of Directors. ? But ultimately, we all need to be the ombudsman.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

The latest to debunk this myth is the ultimate medical and child welfare establishment source: JAMA Pediatrics. The title explains it all: "Child Physical Abuse Did Not Increase During the Pandemic." ? I call it child protection PTSD, that they’re just gonna one day knock on my door.”

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Key child safety measures show significant improvement A Black Families Matter rally in New York City in 2020. Today: Context for the new study: The Administration for Children’s Services’ own data show that when the agency pulled back, did fewer investigations and took fewer children – child safety improved. ? Then they suppressed it.

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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. That’s the term I use for that one public official or “child advocate” who is quoted in almost every news story and whose words are treated as holy writ.)

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JANUARY 4, 2022

The end of 2021 brought more outstanding reporting on various dark corners of the “child welfare” system. ? If you tear a child from a parent’s arms, then demand money to give the child back, what’s the right word for the payment? How about TANF as a child welfare slush fund.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Now I’d like to pose the same question to some politicians – and some journalists – in Kansas: Suppose a couple of strangers kidnapped your child at birth and fled to Mexico. Suppose they took really good care of your child. Should they be allowed to keep your child? The kidnappers took great care of your child.

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