➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Defense Secretary proposes flexibility in hiring, promotions AMI Newswire - June 09, 2016 For existing employees, Carter proposes giving them six weeks of paid leave after the birth or adoption of a child, plus allowing them to work "part-time … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: NICWA Executive Director Commends Bureau of Indian Affairs on New Indian Child Welfare Act Regulations Native News Online - June 10, 2016 In response to yesterday's announcement of new Indian Child Welfare Act regulations, National Indian Child … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: A National Report Card on Permanency Chronicle of Social Change - June 10, 2016 The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) was passed in 1999 to minimize foster care drift and shorten the stay in temporary care. Recognizing that one year is … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Philadelphia Uses Flexible Cash to Test Storied Child Abuse Prevention Program The Chronicle of Social Change - June 09, 2016 In Philadelphia, where approximately 3,000 children will enter out-of-home care each year according to the Department of … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: House gets into heated debate over college professor background checks (Includes video) ABC27 - June 09, 2016 It began as an academic debate about academics. But it turned heated in the Pennsylvania House earlier this week. The question: should … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: Call for men in Oxford to speak out about FGM before start of 'cutting season' Oxford Times - June 13, 2016 No official statistics exist for the city but Dr Brenda Kelly, founder of FGM specialist unit The Rose Clinic at the John … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Trinidad and Tobago: Faris on child marriages: Amendments already drafted Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday - June 13, 2016 Apart from the amendments propose for consideration which include raising the marriage age from as young as 12 for girls and 14 … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Paraguay: Rich an 'adopt' children as domestic help. But that might change. Washington Post - June 12, 2016 Alvarenga's experience remains tragically common in Paraguay, one of the last bastions in Latin America of a colonial-era system of child … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Nigeria: Ekiti to enforce law against female genital mutilation Nigeria Punch - June 10, 2016 According to the UNFPA, Nigeria has one-quarter of circumcised women worldwide while Ekiti State has 71.2 per cent prevalence … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Kenya: Fight to End a Culture of Forced Child Marriages in Kenya Heads to Court American Center for Law and Justice - June 10, 2016 Next week, attorneys from our affiliate office in Kenya are going to court to take a stand against forced child … [Read more...]