Community Care
MARCH 8, 2023
Councils are referring more children from residential to foster care, independent fostering agencies (IFAs) have reported. Children making significant progress in residential care due to effective therapeutic interventions, making them ready and willing to move to a family-like setting.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
MARCH 28, 2023
As Sankaran and Church point out: any public reporting of the number of adopted children who once again enter foster care is likely an underestimate. Even with these limited data, a recent study found that more than 66,000 adopted children ended up back in foster care between 2008 to 2020, an average of 12 a day.
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Community Care
MAY 5, 2022
Carers felt they were assumed to be guilty, undervalued and ostracised from the team around the child, said the charity, in a report analysing findings from its 2021 State of the Nation Foster Care. In the instances where the children in foster care were removed, 78% of the allegations were deemed unfounded or unsubstantiated.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
APRIL 3, 2023
It’s literally computerized racial profiling: race and ethnicity are explicitly used to rate the risk that a child will be harmed. But like everything else in family policing, the reasons children wind up in foster care are arbitrary, capricious, cruel – and subject to racial and class bias.
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.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
DECEMBER 5, 2023
New resource ● While we continue to wait for the federal government to put out the annual AFCARS report, its official foster care statistics for the year ending September 30, 2022, The Imprint has released its own survey , covering the year ending March 31, 2023. The Imprint survey does ask some questions AFCARS doesn’t.
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
But while they’re making themselves media stars, their statements fan the flames of foster-care panic , encouraging more needless removal, doing enormous harm to the children needlessly removed, and overloading the system – making it even more likely that the next child in real danger will be missed.
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