Sunday, December 14, 2025

NCCPR in the Toledo Blade: County Children Services won’t do its own heavy lifting

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  The increased costs facing Lucas County Children Services are not the fault of a federal law or state stinginess. They’re the fault of the...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 9, 2025

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● I’m not sure how to talk about this first item without sounding all clickbaity, but what happened in a New York appellate court late last ...
Monday, December 8, 2025

NCCPR in The Imprint: Safer Compared to What? Foster care apologists set an incredibly low bar — and still can’t clear it

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 A recent study in Sweden followed children in more than 21,000 cases of child abuse or neglect allegations. Part of the sample went to fost...
Sunday, December 7, 2025

Child welfare in New York: “Despicable” them.

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That’s just one of the choice words appellate court justices applied to the behavior of the New York City family police agency during oral a...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending December 2, 2025

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● Another example of the journalism of child welfare at its best: From CT Mirror :  A project that involved reporting over two years, reveal...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Child welfare in Georgia: What’s the difference between “Driving While Black” and “Driving While a White Prominent Lobbyist and Former Campaign Policy Advisor to the Governor”?

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Quite a lot, if you happen to be the children in the car   Perhaps you remember the story of the five children in Tennessee , torn from thei...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Who watches the watchdog? (In Massachusetts and every other "child advocate" / "child welfare ombudsman" office.)

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  The Massachusetts Legislature has named a nominating committee to recommend candidates to become the next leader of the state’s Office of ...