Foster Care Government Interviewing Social Services 
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Whenever anyone in state government was asked about the problems in the state’s “child welfare” system they’d give the same stock answer: As soon as the new Department of Social Services was up and running, and took over jobs then done by the Department of Public Welfare, everything would be fine!
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 26, 2023
We can do that because we have actual evidence that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, family preservation is not only more humane than foster care or massive surveillance, it’s also safer. More than half the time the child who disclosed the abuse was not even interviewed by those charged with investigating the allegation.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
As noted in yesterday’s post, about Putnam-Hornstein’s work in California, the California Department of Social Services declared that The Department believes that “universal-level risk stratification” is unethical and has no intention to use it now or in the future. At that point three things happen: ?
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease foster care caseloads and refer families to community supports.
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