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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: CT: Advocates see a deck stacked against parents in DCF cases The Day - October 22, 2016 Lawyers and others who deal with child welfare cases say that once the Department of Children and Families takes a child from a home and wins temporary custody, … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: Hundreds of students take a stand over 387 unaccompanied children at Calais 'Jungle' camp Gazette-Standard - October 24, 2016 Around 387 students at the Sixth Form College in Colchester gathered on the college grounds as part of a … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: CT: Yes, There IS a Problem with the "Culture Change" in Connecticut: It Hasn't Gone Far Enough Chronicle of Social Change - October 25, 2016 As NCCPR discusses in detail in this report, the current governor, Dannel Malloy, and the Commissioner of … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: Some big lessons from Troubled Families BBC News - October 18, 2016 This is despite the work of researchers from the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, who wrote: "Across a wide range of outcomes, covering the key … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Syria: Desperate Families Flee into War-torn Syria to Escape Mosul Fighting (Press release) Save the Children - October 19, 2016 About 5,000 people, mostly women and children, have arrived at the Al Hol Camp from the Mosul area in the last 10 days, and … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Lebanon: The Precarious State of Syrian Refugee Women, Children in Lebanon Rand - October 13, 2016 More than 13 million Syrians (PDF) in Syria and surrounding countries have been displaced by the conflict since March 2011, creating what some have … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Italy: UNICEF: Record Numbers of Unaccompanied Children Arrive in Italy Arab Today - October 19, 2016 More and more migrant children have been crossing the sea to Italy without their families, bringing the number of unaccompanied minors to a record … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: India: Anti-trafficking Bill to be introduced in Parliament soon: Maneka Gandhi The Morung Express - October 17, 2016 Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday said the government will soon bring an anti-trafficking legislation in … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Europe: Former Archbishop: 'The clock is ticking' for minors in Calais (Opinion) Middle East Monitor - October 17, 2016 "The clock is ticking," according to former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Rowan Williams as the demolition of the Calais "Jungle" … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Canada: October is Child Abuse Prevention Month Trent Hills Independent - October 19, 2016 The campaign is about "making it more comfortable for people to call" the children's aid society because "there's a bit of a stigma sometimes" attached to … [Read more...]