➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: New Zealand: Child abuse sentence 'disgraceful': Sensible Sentencing Trust (Opinion) Stuff - October 06, 2016 Home detention is a disgraceful sentence for years of child abuse, the Sensible Sentencing Trust says. A Hamilton couple who hit, kicked and … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Netherlands: Rotterdam calls for 'incompetent mothers' to take compulsory contraception Independent - October 05, 2016 Rotterdam city council has called for mothers, judged to be incapable to raise children, to be given compulsory contraception by … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: De Blasio lays out ACS reforms in wake of abused boy's death New York Daily News - October 05, 2016 With child welfare Commissioner Gladys Carrion sitting next to him, Mayor de Blasio declared Wednesday at a City Hall presser that the mission of … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Chobani announces six weeks, 100 percent paid parental leave policy KMVT/KSVT - October 05, 2016 Greek yogurt company Chobani announced Wednesday its new parental policy that will give full-time employee six weeks of 100 percent paid leave for a … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: CT: After Details Revealed In Baby's Near-Fatal Starvation, DCF Pledges Reforms, Defends Discipline Of 3 Workers (Includes video) Hartford Courant - October 05, 2016 The day after the release of a searing study of the near-fatal starvation of a baby … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Canada: First Nations advocates call foster care sex abuse report 'tragic' CBC News - October 05, 2016 First Nations advocates are calling for provincial action after B.C.'s representative of children and youth report found hundreds of B.C. children … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: CT: Report finds fault with DCF for near-starvation of toddler Associated Press - October 04, 2016 The state's child advocate on Tuesday blamed "the utter collapse of all safeguards" for the abuse and near-starvation of a toddler who was under the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: De Blasio Administration Adding Child Welfare Protections in Wake of Beating Death of 6-Year-Old Boy (Includes video) NY1 News - October 05, 2016 The mayor will announce Wednesday that Administration for Children's Services staffers will be given … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Number of Kids in Foster Care Cut in Half Amid City Policy Change: Data DNAinfo - October 05, 2016 The number of children placed in foster care in New York City has been cut nearly in half in recent years, statistics … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Press Release: New York City Council Announces Oversight Hearing To Examine How The City Responds To Child Abuse And Neglect (Press release) New York Nonprofit Media - October 04, 2016 New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and … [Read more...]