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Children deserve better
Victoria :: Canada | about 3 hours ago
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Jim Pavlidis It will shame all of us if our Government can't find the funds for child protection. IT IS almost 20 years since the battered face of Daniel Valerio stared out at Victorians from beyond the grave, shaming us all.
Tags: child protection, Daniel Valerio, George Brouwer, Hayley, Victorian, protection worker, Canada, Victoria, Murder of Victoria Climbiￃﾩ, Child Protective Services, Child abuse, Ombudsman, Death of Baby P, Law Crime
New checklist to help identify abused kids
Sydney :: Australia | about 10 hours ago
Credibility The state commissioned an international child protection expert to design a list of questions for teachers, police, doctors and nurses to ask themselves if they suspect that a child has been abused. It follows highly publicised cases of child neglect,...
Tags: identify abused, Australia, Sydney, Child sexual abuse, Mandated reporter, Child Protective Services, Social Issues, Child abuse, Child protection, Family therapy
DHS: Fewer Oklahoma child welfare workers
Oklahoma City :: OK :: USA | about 19 hours ago
Credibility The number of child welfare workers is dropping, the Commission for Human Services was told Tuesday. In May, the Department of Human Services employed 1,095 child welfare workers, a figure which dropped to 1,056 in October. Plans call for reducing that...
Tags: child welfare, Mark Youngblood, welfare workers, Oklahoma City, Social Issues, Child abuse, Business Finance, Youngblood, Child protection
High staff turnover is hampers intervention
Sydney :: Australia | 1 day ago
Credibility THE practice of flying city doctors and other health professionals into and out of remote indigenous communities under the Federal Government's intervention in the Northern Territory has been criticised by a parliamentary committee.
Tags: indigenous communities, Senate, remote indigenous, Australia, Sydney, Law enforcement in Australia, Northern Territory National Emergency Response, Social Issues, Child abuse, Child protection, Government of Australia, Northern Territory, Developmental disability
Taking the fear out of hospitals for children
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility Irish hospitals are likely to end up in rooms with elderly people, some of them with dementia, according to an expert group. The Children in Hospital Ireland organisation (CHI), which has campaigned on this issue for decades, says the age profile of the...
Tags: CHI, adults ward, Hospital Ireland, special need, United Kingdom, London, Parenting, Pediatrics, Hospital, Child protection
Baby in CPS custody
Tamuning :: Guam | 1 day ago
Credibility An allegedly abandoned infant who was found on a bench in Tamuning on Monday will most likely be put up for adoption if her parents are not located during upcoming court proceedings. The baby girl is in the temporary custody of Child Protective Services,...
Tags: Guam, Tamuning, Child Protective Services, Social Issues, Child abuse, Child protection, Family law, Adoption, Hardy, Domestic violence, Law Crime, Foster care, Child welfare
Less Diversity in Supervisors of Foster Care
New York City :: NY :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility More than two decades ago, New York started down a path that was considered a hallmark of child welfare reform by creating and strengthening its minority-governed, neighborhood-based foster care agencies...The agency was the fifth minority-led foster...
Tags: foster cared, Mr. Mattingly, child welfare, run agency, task force, New York City, cared agency, welfare advocates, Child and family services, Social Issues, Child protection, Holt International Children's Services, Family law, Adoption, Foster care, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
From case to cause of child abuse
Sydney :: Australia | 3 days ago
Credibility Andrew Dyson To avoid subjecting more children to the trauma of removal from neglectful families, the root causes need to be tackled. Parliament two weeks ago, the Prime Minister apologised to the men and women who were in state care in Australia during...
Tags: child protection, protection worker, Victorian Parliament, University of South Australia, Australia, Sydney, Care of residents, Child Protective Services, Social Issues, Child abuse, Ombudsman, Child welfare, Family therapy, Foster care
Calls of abuse fall through DCF cracks
Bradenton :: FL :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility A hotline counselor declines to forward the report to an investigator. Oct. 6, 10:15 a.m.: A school guidance counselor reports a mother who had repeatedly missed doctors appointments for her daughter, whose sickle cell disease is so severe she is losing...
Tags: DCF, child abuse, Bradenton, Social Issues, Child protection, Death of Baby P
Schools vet parents for Christmas festivities
London :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility Christmas carol services and other festive activities are being officially vetted for criminal records in case they are paedophiles. In the latest expansion of the government’s child protection agenda, parents are checked against a database of people...
Tags: primaries schools, carol services, child protection, United Kingdom, London, Education, Teacher, Carol service, Vetting
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