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Are N.J. kids safer? Here’s how child welfare system did on its latest report card.

July 25, 2017 by Greg Cywnar

Are N.J. kids safer? Here’s how child welfare system did on its latest report card.
TRENTON — Foster children in New Jersey last year were less likely to return to abusive homes and were more likely to have found a job and a place to live if they reached adulthood without being adopted, according to the latest report monitoring the child welfare agency’s rehabilitation since it was deemed a failure 14 years ago.
But like previous report cards federal court monitor Judith Meltzer has submitted, the one she released Wednesday also documented areas in which the Department of Children and Families failed to make adequate progress.
The quality of on-the-ground case work — meeting with parents, planning for a child’s needs in foster care, and assessing whether the child will be able to return home or be placed up for adoption – fell short.
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/07/latest_child_welfare_system_report_card_shows_prog.html

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