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“Child welfare” and the moral bankruptcy of social work

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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?’”

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The tattletale factor in “child welfare”

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It seems like a week doesn’t go by without some “child welfare” agency announcing an initiative that supposedly will make family policing kinder and gentler. But for these and similar interventions there is one huge catch: Call it the tattletale factor. At worst, this can wind up widening the net of needless intervention into families.

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Cutting through the spin about predictive analytics in child welfare

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Identifying and proactively targeting services to families with no [child welfare services] involvement is a violation of families’ privacy and their rights to parent as they see fit. This would be an overreach in the roles and responsibilities of a government agency. Emphasis added.]

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A child welfare case leads to a stunning dissent from Michigan’s Chief Justice

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

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.

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When the journalism of child welfare fails, part one: The Boston Globe’s flying donkey

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

With a few notable exceptions (generally written by nonwhite reporters), the Globe follows the party line of those whose 19 th Century counterparts proudly called themselves “child savers” – that massive intervention into families is needed to keep children safe. Here’s a case in point from 2020. Things haven’t changed much.

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Secure children’s home bed numbers fall despite huge level of need

Community Care

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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PC-Care: In-Home PCIT Intervention for Children

inSocialWork

In this episode, Lindsay Armendariz and Brandi Hawk discuss Parent-Child Care (PC-Care), a brief intervention designed to respond to the needs of parents, foster parents and children in the child welfare system. The post PC-Care: In-Home PCIT Intervention for Children appeared first on UB Social Work. Brandi Hawk , Ph.D.