➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: Child safeguarding hub misses targets (Includes video) BBC News - May 04, 2016 A child protection agency set up in the wake of an organized sex ring in Oxfordshire has missed referral response … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Our Inadequate Response to an Underestimated Problem (Opinion) The Chronicle of Social Change - May 04, 2016 If we found out a public health crisis was three to four times greater than previously known, how quickly would Congress authorize … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Lawyer takes on children's life-and-death issues National Catholic Reporter - May 04, 2016 Today, Harfeld is a seasoned staff attorney in Washington for the Children's Advocacy Institute, a nonprofit founded in 1989 at the University of San Diego … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Gov't says North Carolina LGBT law violates civil rights Associated Press - May 04, 2016 The US Justice Department said Wednesday that North Carolina's law limiting protections for LGBT people violates federal civil rights laws. North Carolina … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Getting Your Finances Ready for Adoption (Opinion) Huffington Post - May 04, 2016 When you think about it, planning to start a family through adoption is not much different than starting a biological family - it's all joyful. However, the unique … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Child Abuse: The Not-Really-All-That-Shocking Truth (Opinion) The Chronicle of Social Change - May 04, 2016 Children's Data Network's (CDN's) five-year study suffers from the same flaw as the one-year studies: a reliance on official definitions … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: While we fear transgender people, predators hide in plain sight (Opinion) The Intelligencer - May 05, 2016 Child sex abuse, one of the most heinous of crimes, is also one of the hardest to catch because of offenders' power and victims' shame. … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: Lawrence County has critical need for foster parents, officials say Ellwood City Ledger - May 04, 2016 On Wednesday, 76 children were in group homes or some sort of other care without foster parents in the area served by Children and Youth … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: For Foster Kids, Preschool Can Be A Place To Catch Up Socially and Emotionally (Includes audio) WXXI - May 04, 2016 Coles says these are important skills foster kids might miss out on at home. "To the general public it's like, "Yeah, my mom and … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: DOI releases second scathing report on ACS New York Nonprofit Media - May 04, 2016 The New York City Department of Investigation released its second report in under a month on policy and practice violations at the city Administration for … [Read more...]