➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: What Parents Need To Know About Having A Foster Child And How It Could Change Their Life For The Better Parent Herald - December 08, 2016 For those of you who don't know what foster parenting is, with the help of LACDCFS, this means that one … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: A Prison Sentence Impacts Many (Opinion) Whitman Wire - December 08, 2016 There are many victims of America's unjust system of mass incarceration, but there is a particular demographic that is deeply affected yet often goes unacknowledged: the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: A North Carolina Senator Wants to Block a Foster Care Reform Bill Teen Vogue - December 08, 2016 Each day, there are approximately 415,000 children in foster care in the United States, according to Children's Rights. On average, kids remain in … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: A missed opportunity: Congress fails to pass needed foster care reforms (Opinion) Register-Guard - December 09, 2016 At first glance, the Family First Prevention Services Act looked to be about as close to a slam-dunk as a piece of federal … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: Monroe County reports spike in child neglect Democrat and Chronicle - December 07, 2016 The county Department of Health Services anticipates handling about 10,000 reports of child abuse and neglect by the end of 2016, according to its 2017 budget … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: CT: Editorial: Adoption records are loosening but more is needed to help orphans, adoptees find out who they are New Haven Register - December 08, 2016 Who am I? That is the question that more than 400,000 orphans in the United States and 140 million … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: DfE report proposes 'forced privatisation' of child protection services Children & Young People Now - December 02, 2016 Councils should be compelled to outsource children's services including child protection work as part of … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: Britain shocked by growing soccer child-abuse scandal Yahoo - December 03, 2016 What began last month as a harrowing account of child abuse suffered by a former professional English soccer player has lifted the lid on what could be … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Ireland: Children with intellectual disabilities discriminated against by Child and Family Agency Tusla - report claims Irish Mirror - December 04, 2016 They also deemed working with Tusla "incredibly frustrating" at times. The damming report also … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: India: Child Welfare Committee asked to expedite adoption process Pioneer - December 04, 2016 There were over a dozen couples, some of them travelled from Sweden and Malta, who embarked on a new journey of life where they are all set to experience … [Read more...]