NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 12, 2023
That’s the real message behind a monthly newsletter touting “the good stuff in child welfare.” Let’s focus on the “good stuff”: If you happen to be a foster child in Grand Rapids Michigan you can get a free haircut! That’s because “looking their best helps students feel their best as they head back to school.”
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
The poll that wasn’t rigged Back in the 19 th Century, the white racists who stole Native American children and forced them into hideous boarding schools, and tore apart impoverished immigrant families and forced the children onto so-called “orphan trains” grandly called themselves “child savers.” I don’t know.
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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. 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?’”
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
OCTOBER 24, 2021
The same scholar who claims predictive analytics in child welfare isn’t biased also signs on to an extremist agenda calling for an automatic, mandatory extra level of family police surveillance of thousands of impoverished families. She also misunderstands abolition and mocks the words of a Black child welfare activist.
Community Care
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
The Department for Education (DfE) has merged responsibilities for children’s social care and schools under new minister Kelly Tolhurst. In line with previous ministers for schools, her role will be at the mid-ranking minister of state level, a more senior post than the junior ministerial status held by her five social care predecessors.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Police officers and child welfare caseworkers were ordering a woman to open her front door. Or they’d interrogate the child at school. Here’s how ProPublica describes one encounter: It was 5:30 a.m. Flashlights beamed in through the windows of the ground-floor apartment in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
The big national takeaway is that these data – once again – refute the racist myth about COVID-19 and “child welfare.” The federal government has released state-by-state data for the number of children taken from their parents in FFY 2021 (yes, they always run about a year late). And NCCPR has updated our rate-of-removal index.
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