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Seven children and all she needed was a van: large families and the blindness of the child welfare establishment

Child Welfare Monitor

But today’s post focuses on one particularly jarring vignette–the story of a mother, her seven children, and a van–and what it means about how child welfare policy is made and discussed today. David Reed, the Deputy Director of Child Welfare Services in Indiana, introduced the story of this family in his testimony.

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The child welfare establishment just got four billion messages: Your system is not safe

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

This $4 billion settlement is the latest illustration of the fact that the entire model of American child welfare was built on a false premise: that child removal equals child safety. So let's apply the rhetoric weve heard from the child welfare establishment decade after decade to these cases.

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Child welfare in Tennessee: Here comes the new lawsuit, just like the old lawsuit.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

That’s why the new one won’t fix child welfare either I have an idea for a great TV game show: Name That Lawsuit! Here’s how it works: I post excerpts from lawsuits about Tennessee’s “child welfare” system, contestants guess which is from the lawsuit filed 25 years ago and which is from the lawsuit filed last month.

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West Virginia does NOT underspend on “child welfare” – it MIS-spends

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

West Virginia probably spends on child welfare at a rate anywhere from 9% to 44% above the national average. To read West Virginia Watch and other news outlets constantly bemoaning a supposed lack of funding for child welfare, youd think West Virginia was spending at or near the lowest rate in the country.

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How the Kansas “child welfare” agency makes hundreds of foster children “disappear.”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The practice goes back a long way We first discovered the practice in 2007, while working on our report about Kansas child welfare. He cites claims that child abuse is underreported, and the fact that his position has popular support as evidenced by viewer comments on a television station website.

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The rejection of child protection

Child Welfare Monitor

by Marie Cohen Source: [link] Proposed federal budget cuts to child welfare services might hurt New Jersey’s recent progress in child welfare, the Commissioner of New Jersey’s Department of Children and Families told state legislators l ast month. ” And why not?

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Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation

CO4Kids

Back to Blogs Community Blog Child Welfare FAQs Regarding Family Detention or Deportation click to Download information in pdf The following information is not legal advice or guidance. What is the states role in overseeing child welfare in Colorado? Will county child welfare staff follow a family protection plan?