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➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: PA: EDITORIAL: Stop CYF funding shell game York Dispatch - July 26, 2016 This year's budget includes funding for the CYF offices through June 30, 2017, with an actual 2.5 percent increase over the funding received last year, not the 20.7 percent the … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NY: NYC Foster Youth Nonprofit Turns Funding Crisis into Opportunity Chronicle of Social Change - July 27, 2016 While the concerns surrounding the ACS contract termination with You Gotta Believe were complex, compassion in the community for the work … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: NJ: State Supreme Court upholds parental rights for poor parents The Record - July 26, 2016 All poor parents have a constitutional right to an attorney when New Jersey's child welfare agency seeks to remove children from their care. The state … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: Rise in reports of sex crimes on youngsters with 143 more cases reported compared to the previous year Basildon Recorder - July 26, 2016 Sex crimes against children are on the rise in Essex, according to new crime statistics released … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Romania: More than 100 institutionalised children, victims of abuses and exploitation in 2015 Nine O'Clock - July 25, 2016 "According to the information received from the National Authority for the Protection of Children's Rights and Adoption … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: Europe: 'Deplorable' child migrant response raises trafficking risk: report Thomson Reuters Foundation - July 25, 2016 Children who flee poverty and war zones without their parents are falling prey to traffickers and smugglers once they arrive in … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: ProPublica Exposes Racial Bias in Predictive Analytics Chronicle of Social Change - July 25, 2016 Although these measures were created with the best of intentions, I am concerned that they inadvertently undermine our efforts to ensure … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Child Welfare Ideas from the Experts, #1: Federal Runaway Prevention Regulations in Foster Home Licensing Chronicle of Social Change - July 25, 2016 Washington wants to amend a recently signed federal law to "restrict the renewal of a foster home … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: US: Bogus 'sex offender' labels are ruining lives (Opinion) New York Post - July 25, 2016 The US Bureau of Justice reports: "The single age with the greatest number of offenders from the perspective of law enforcement was age … [Read more...]

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ: United Kingdom: Child Poverty Bill a new approach to tackling inequality - Nicola Sturgeon The Extra - July 20, 2016 About 220,000 children are officially recognised as living in poverty, according to the Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland. A … [Read more...]