NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

News and commentary from the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform concerning child abuse, child welfare, foster care, and family preservation.

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Arizona governor robs poor families to give middle-class foster parents a giant pay raise

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  It’s almost as if Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs stole a page from Donald Trump’s playbook. She’s moving to attract greedy potential foster pare...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending January 27, 2026

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● Parents of disabled children often need to fight tooth and nail to get schools to provide the services their children need, and are entitl...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Missouri “child welfare” agency gets it right! (For all the wrong reasons)

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Missouri Children's Division Director Sara Smith The Missouri Independent has a story about legislators bemoaning the horrendous worklo...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

“Educational neglect”: When education bureaucrats and the family police team up to traumatize a family

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Just reading about what Michelle Fraser had to do to get her son Jacob the special education services he needed and to which he was entitled...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending January 20, 2026

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● We begin with the news we broke on this blog yesterday afternoon : The federal government’s annual Child Maltreatment report is out. It s...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Latest federal data show significant decline in child abuse fatalities, even as foster care entries fell

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The latest federal compilation of data from the states concerning child abuse and neglect shows that known child abuse fatalities declined ...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

A Nevada County forces families to gamble with their children’s lives

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  The county offers families a cruel choice – and effectively admits they DO police families for poverty “alone.”   Over and over, family po...
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The members of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform have encountered the child welfare system in their professional capacities. Through NCCPR, we work to make that system better serve America’s most vulnerable children by trying to change policies concerning child abuse, foster care and family preservation. Unless otherwise noted, all posts on this blog are by NCCPR's Executive Director, Richard Wexler Contact us at info(at)nccpr(dot)info phone: (703) 212-2006
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