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The failure of the child welfare McLawsuits, Part Two

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

To read the account on CR’s website you’d think their suit turned a dreadful, failing “child welfare” system into a shining success story. But just four years later, the Tennessee Department of Child Services, their family police agency (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agency) has opened a bunch of new ones.

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Pushing back on a child welfare poll full of loaded questions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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? There is no mention of seeking to recapture the spirit of the Indian Child Welfare Act. I don’t know. But some of the questions sure sound like push polling.

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PART TWO OF FOUR: Reputation laundering in "child welfare": The Child Welfare League of America

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. High-quality defense counsel for all families at risk of being caught in the family police net. ?

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PART ONE OF FOUR: “Child welfare” heads to the reputation laundry

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The child welfare establishment co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. The child welfare establishment co-opts the rhetoric of reform to promote the same old family policing agenda The hearings about the Jan. We have always been at war with Eurasia.”

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“Child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. There aren’t enough beds for little guys that need this level of care, and the child welfare system has to kind of figure out ‘how can we do the best with what we have?’”

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PART FOUR OF FOUR: Reputation laundering in child welfare: “Prevent Child Abuse America”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. Not one has embraced any change that would actually diminish the police power of “child welfare.”

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Maine’s child welfare ombudsman is dangerously wrong

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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. For starters, Maine should join the many states in which child welfare court hearings are open.