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US: Child Welfare Ideas from the Experts #9: Standardized Registry of Maltreatment Reports
Chronicle of Social Change – August 01, 2017
Hora calls on Congress to move toward national standards for state child abuse and neglect registries, and a national aggregation of records from those registries. Hora’s plan would be for new minimum standards that include at least two following provisions. First, the second report for a child, and any subsequent one, must trigger a screening-in and an investigation. Second, records of all reports should be maintained for no fewer than 25 years, “or even indefinitely.”
https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/analysis/child-welfare-ideas-experts-9-standardized-registry-maltreatment-reports/27570