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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending August 8, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

The focus is on false allegations by child abuse pediatricians, and a Texas mother, Holly Simonton, whose own experience led her to found a group called Parents Behind the Pinwheels : In April, children's hospitals across the country display pinwheels for National Child Abuse Prevention Month. How’s it working out?

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Children’s social care bodies unite against asylum bill that ‘profoundly undermines Children Act’

Community Care

Social work and children’s organisations have united against government proposals that would increase the detention and deportation of children and seemingly leave many unaccompanied young people outside the scope of the children’s social care system.

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NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending June 27, 2023

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

● Three weeks ago, ProPublica exposed the duplicity of New York City’s family police agency as it publicly said it favored caseworkers informing families of their rights - while working behind the scenes to gut legislation to require just that. in contrast, passed bills to do both. And, in a commentary about the ICWA decision in Slate, Prof.

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Children with Parents Behind Bars

Beyond Advocacy

With so much madness in the world, vulnerable populations are being left further behind. Children with incarcerated parents are of those forgotten groups. With many parents behind bars, naturally, there were concerns about the well-being of the children they had left behind.

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Lessons from two child welfare court decisions

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Then, on May 21, the caller said, the mother was back allegedly with one of her two children, outside the authority’s offices for eight hours and it was “unknown” if the child was fed during that time. The mother says her children were not with her during her protest on May 21, and the call to DHS was retaliation for her political activity.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

I was fitted with a hospital bracelet with my name and a bar code on it. One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. My other sibling was fine and so was my other parent. he suggested, as he sat down next to me on the bed. We’d get some breakfast and then go for a walk.

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In “child welfare” the horror stories go in all directions – all year long

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Stories about children murdered or tortured in their own homes stampeded us into building a massive system that destroys children in the name of saving them. It’s also so overloaded the system that workers have no time to find the few children in real danger. The system has torn apart millions of families needlessly.