Judging kids’ risk is an ‘ongoing problem,’ it says
By Ann Imse, Rocky Mountain News
Saturday, March 8, 2008
An outside review has criticized Denver’s child protection agency for a long list of management problems, including failure to check for abuse by non-family members such as boyfriends.
The outside review was requested by the Denver Department of Human Services [...]
Ozarks Opinions News-Leader.com, MO
“In the past decade, the incidence of child abuse – locally and nationally – has declined sharply."
However, child neglect “has not shown the same encouraging decline.” Child neglect “accounts for two-thirds of the 3 million reports made to child protective services nationwide each year” and “the number of substantiated child neglect cases [...]
The OregonianAaron Clark, Associated Press
“Oregon lawmakers advanced a bill Monday [April 30] they said will clamp down on child abuse and neglect and make it easier for authorities to identify children victimized by adults.”
The bill, known as “'Karly's Law,’ after a 3-year-old girl who was tortured and killed by an abusive adult,…would require children [...]
First Star to Launch National Campaign to Strengthen State and Federal Laws Protecting Abused and Neglected ChildrenPR Newswire
On April 24, 2007, the child advocacy organization First Star released “the peer reviewed study ‘A Child’s Right to Counsel.’” The study was conducted by child welfare experts and found “’glaring anomalies’ in how states protect the legal [...]
Sioux City Journal, IA
The Children's Justice Summit, drew nearly 200 child welfare advocates, attorneys, public defenders and court administrators from each of Iowa's eight districts.
They discussed how the courts could better serve the state's foster children, focusing on the need for different agencies to work together.
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Tyler Morning Telegraph, TX Casey Knaupp
"State District Judge Carole Clark is taking a Smith County proposal to Austin in an attempt to have local child welfare representatives become involved in decision-making for local children."
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WCCO, MN
To find out how the permanency law is working and whether judges are following the timelines, Minnesota Public Radio asked Minnesota's court system to provide data on how long children were living in temporary care.
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Decrease due in part to an antiquated law known as the "lookback" which determines eligibility based on a 1996 income standardPress ReleaseGina Russo
A new report by the Kids Are Waiting: Fix Foster Care Now campaign found that between 1998 and 2005 the number of foster children eligible for federal support fell by 35,000. Further, that "number is projected [...]
Highlights Urgent Need for Foster Care Financing ReformKidsarewaiting.orgGina Russo
On Capitol Hill, 30 past and present foster youth joined child welfare advocates to “celebrate and recognize the birthdays of the more than 500,000 children in foster care.”
The event coincided with the release of Time for Reform: Too Many Birthdays in Foster Care, “a guide to the [...]
Kidsarewaiting.org
This Kids are Waiting report concerns the nearly 20,000 “children in relative foster care, [for whom] a court has determined that neither reunification nor adoption is a viable option.” Under current federal law, “children may leave foster care through reunification, adoption or legal guardianship, [but] federal financial assistance is dedicated only to support foster and [...]
