Thursday, October 1, 2020

How many best practices can a child welfare agency ignore in a single case?

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New Hampshire may have set a record – all to be sure a Black couple can’t adopt their grandchildren. UPDATE, OCT. 4, 2020: The New Hampshi...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending September 29, 2020

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● It’s a common lament among those of us seeking to reform child welfare: If only there were bodycam video during child abuse investigations...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Pittsburgh’s child welfare predictive analytics model has a failure rate of up to 99.8% – according to their own study. (So why are they calling this success?)

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Pittsbugh's predictive analytics algorithm slaps a "scarlet number" risk score on every child  who is the subject of a report ...
Monday, September 28, 2020

In Australia an algorithm used by government was so destructive it was banned by the courts. Guess which algorithms are way worse.

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            From a living room somewhere in suburban Melbourne, Australia, a history scholar who wanted to reach beyond an academic audience...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

NCCPR news and commentary round-up, week ending September 22, 2020

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  Before getting to the news, two big events:   ● On September 30, the Shriver Center on Poverty Law begins a series of webinars on the fo...
Monday, September 21, 2020

“You can’t just throw poison into the public consciousness”

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For decades the child welfare establishment has been exaggerating numbers and hyping horror stories – but only to “raise awareness,” of cour...