NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A “scholar” who insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare writes a “predictive analytics” algorithm for the State of California. Somehow, the contract to write a so-called “independent ethics review” of the algorithm is given to another “scholar” who also insists there is little or no racial bias in child welfare.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But it’s hard to imagine anything that more perfectly captures the banality of child welfare thinking than this waste of $20 million: Five organizations will spend this federal grant money to create a “Quality Improvement Center on Engaging Youth in Finding Permanency.” There are many such groups. Oh, don’t get me wrong.

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National Casa Gal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978 is a federal law that recognizes tribal sovereignty and governs jurisdiction over the removal of Native American (Indian) children from their families.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

More than just a dissent in an individual case, this opinion is a call to transform “child welfare” in Michigan – and everywhere else. is a brilliant dissection of the failings of both law and practice in “child welfare” in Michigan and pretty much everywhere else in America. Raising a child is difficult, even when there is no crisis.

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Beyond Advocacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Capitol Visitor Center, First Street and East Capitol Street, Washington, DC 20515, to explore legislative remedies should the Supreme Court overturn the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). They urged the Supreme Court to “uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act’s constitutionality in all respects.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JULY 23, 2023

If you’ve followed Massachusetts child welfare at all, you know exactly who: Massachusetts’ Fearmonger-in-Chief, state “child advocate” Maria Mossaides. Unfortunately, much of child welfare operates with a pre- Gault mentality. Enter the Fearmonger-in-Chief Mass. But step one is to stop being fooled by Maria Mossaides.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MAY 27, 2022

Like most people in “child welfare” her intentions are good. As she has before, she embraces the Big Lie of American child welfare – that child safety, or the even broader, more amorphous and biased standard of child “wellbeing” - and family preservation are opposites that need to be “balanced.”

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Attention child welfare garden partiers: The skunks have arrived Every year, the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse holds a four-day virtual extravaganza featuring more than 100 panels and speakers from around the world. In the past, this event was essentially a garden party for the child welfare establishment.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The number of ways family policing agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) can hurt the children they are mandated to protect is limited only by their imagination – and, unfortunately, this is the one area where they show any imagination at all. In New York, county governments (and New York City) run family policing.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The DfE’s objectives for the review are: Resolving the patchwork of legislation that currently governs social care for disabled children. The current legal framework governing social care for disabled children is complex and fragmented, with some provisions dating back over 50 years.

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Community Care

MAY 25, 2023

The number of places contracted to the Ministry of Justice to place children detained by the criminal justice system remained stable, at 105, meaning the drop in capacity fell entirely on local authorities looking to place children on welfare grounds or, more rarely, on remand.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Practitioners from the communities have produced a guide to carrying out welfare enquiries to help social workers and others support families affected by the measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. ” Welfare enquiries ‘not routinely carried out’. “So social workers need to separate those two things.

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Community Care

JANUARY 31, 2023

Under section 25 of the Children Act 1989 , such secure welfare placements may only be made if a child either has a history of absconding, would likely abscond from any other setting and, if they did so, would likely suffer significant harm; or would likely injure themselves or others if placed in any other setting.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

That mean old state government makes us do it! But sheesh, all that whining! Over and over again he offers the same response: It’s not my fault! And yet, Dannhauser ignored the obvious solution. That should make us wonder if he really just wants to keep things as they are.

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Community Care

APRIL 3, 2023

The home secretary said the government would introduce a mandatory reporting duty, subject to consultation, in response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse’s final report, published last October. This was one of IICSA’s central recommendations, which it said would combat systemic under-identification of CSA.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

With CJMR there’s no way to protect your family from government agencies taking your most basic, and in some cases, most private data, and turning it against you. But for America’s giant child welfare industry of helping professionals, that spoils all the fun. There is no chance for informed consent or any kind of consent.

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Community Care

MARCH 1, 2023

End of £15,000 payment per child A Home Office spokesperson said: “Due to the rise in dangerous small boats crossings, the government has had no alternative but to urgently use hotels to give unaccompanied asylum-seeking children arriving in the UK a roof over their heads.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

Her new “report” on “permanency” for the American Enterprise Institute, home of Charles Murray , is so full of false premises and false promises that perhaps “permanency” is to child welfare what “creme” is to food. And adoption isn’t always the happily-ever-after that it’s often claimed to be. Font may not view that as a problem.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Top judge’s criticisms of lack of secure provision In his judgment in the Re X case last month, Sir Andrew McFarlane excoriated the government and Parliament for a six-year failure to address judicial warnings about a chronic shortage that meant 60-70 children were waiting for a secure bed every day.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And so, we are not requiring the government to come in and police them and say this is how you need to raise your children. What accounts for these results? How do we solve child neglect, how do we keep children safe in this country? We give families money. We give families money so they can keep their own family safe.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

The interstate compact was created primarily to govern cross-border foster care moves. Nobody in the Massachusetts child-welfare system wanted to take another potentially deadly risk involving the interstate compact. Her shadow hung over Ricardo’s case. But that climate of fear didn’t create itself.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The local authority was satisfied that it was necessary to do so to safeguard or protect the child’s welfare. Social workers going into care homes must be vaccinated against Covid, government decides. The judge said that, in those circumstances, councils could rely on their powers under section 33 of the Children Act 1989.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Scottish Government: ‘needless bureaucracy’. After the government said the scheme would become mandatory, the Welsh and Scottish governments requested an “urgent” meeting with home secretary Priti Patel to discuss concerns over a lack of support for councils that were required to sign up.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The inquiry also urged the creation of Child Protection Authorities for England and Wales responsible for improving practice by statutory agencies and other instutitions, advising government on policy and, where they consider necessary, inspecting organisations. Mandatory reporting requirement. It said 88.6%

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Community Care

MARCH 6, 2022

Children adopted from care falls to lowest in 21 years, government figures show. Government signals shift towards national adoption services under latest strategy. Related articles. Children’s minister’s call for directors to prioritise adoption lambasted by sector heads. 18-month waits.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

In the decades, indeed in the centuries before passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act, U.S. child welfare” policy toward Native Americans fit that definition. ICWA is often described as the “gold standard” for “child welfare” law and policy. It’s not as if anyone tried to hide it.

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Community Care

APRIL 21, 2023

Special educational needs and disability (SEND): entitlement to SEND provision is governed by the Children and Families Act 2014. To improve how the law on social care for disabled children fits in with the law relating to children’s social care more broadly.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The panel, which is appointed by government to advise on safeguarding and analyse serious cases, said practitioners were frequently overreliant on parents’ accounts of events, and did not probe further, and linked this to the lack of supervision. Related articles.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 14, 2024

First under New Labour, then under the Conservatives during a period when councils and government departments had far less money, a radical reshaping of the state’s role also led to a reshaping of charities. In 2009, under Gordon Brown, charities received 37% of their income from the government.

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Community Care

AUGUST 3, 2023

Widespread concerns over use of hotels The ruling follows widespread concerns about the risks to children placed in hotels, in the light of hundreds going missing, a critical inspection report that raised safeguarding issues and doubts over who was responsible for their care and welfare under the Children Act 1989. ”

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Community Care

JUNE 2, 2023

The policy, pioneered by Humberside Constabulary , involves officers only attending mental health or welfare incidents where there was a real and immediate risk to life or of a person being subject to serious injury or inhumane treatment.

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Community Care

JULY 26, 2023

Best practice body the College of Policing said led to a large reduction in the deployment of police resources to mental health or welfare incidents from January 2019 to October 2022 in that area. Rollout too quick – LGA The Local Government Association said right care right person was being rolled out too quickly.

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Social Work With Adults

JULY 5, 2023

[Image created by freepik.com ] Parallel evolution As we mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the NHS, it is worth remembering how Clement Attlee's 1945 government embarked on implementing William Beveridge's report recommendations which set the framework for the welfare state.

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Community Care

MARCH 17, 2023

The government’s Illegal Migration Bill has passed its first parliamentary hurdle as the Children’s Commissioner for England issued a stark warning about its impact on vulnerable children seeking refuge in the UK. De Souza asked Braverman in what circumstances the power would be used and what regulations would govern its use.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 31, 2022

“The child welfare system urgently needs reform and investment in early help if it is going to deliver for families and children.”. Extra £2bn proposed for family support.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The government must set up a task force to tackle longstanding racial disparities in the adoption system, including by making the workforce more diverse. Under this government, more than half of children’s social care services in England are rated good or outstanding , up from 30% five years ago.

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The Guardian

APRIL 16, 2023

Welfare groups claim information could be used by Home Office to deport asylum seekers Police have been collecting the sensitive data of unaccompanied child asylum seekers and sharing it with immigration enforcement, sparking fears it could be used against them for their deportation. Continue reading.

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