Y’all please forgive the delay in getting the most recent child welfare news out. It took me a while to dig out from my travels!
While we’re still awaiting the Brackeen v. Haaland Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act, here’s an interesting perspective I ran across this week from a law professor who suggests that the framers of the US Constitution “forgot” to give Congress the authority to regulate “Indian Affairs” and then decided to ditch the idea. You can read the actual law review article here.
Latest developments on efforts to require CPS workers in NYC to provide “Miranda-type” warnings to families with which they interact.
More states are focusing on providing specialized programs for children in foster care and children with complex needs. In Oklahoma, Centene Corp. was recently awarded the foster care population contract. Kansas is bidding out its Medicaid/Chip program. Colorado just enacted legislation to provide expanded services for children with complex needs.
Are NYC school personnel filing CPS reports in retaliation against parents?
If you have access to the Burlington Free Press of Vermont, which I don’t, there’s a new series discussing the state’s child abuse registry. There’s also an interesting series in the Detroit News on child fatalities that I can’t get to due to a paywall.
Here’s a piece discussing how disputes over proper treatment of children with gender dysphoria are creating headaches for doctors and courts. A bill in California’s legislature could complicate those issues further.
In Arkansas, foster care numbers are down, which is a good thing given some staff retention issues the child welfare agency is facing.
The UK has decided not to give puberty blockers to children as a treatment for gender dysphoria, at least not until a controlled study is done.
Children are still sleeping in offices in North Carolina, but hey, they have mattresses!
Although the problem has been known for awhile, a new report is out regarding years of abuse that occurred at SOS Children’s Villages around the world.
In case you weren’t clear on the dangers of social media, Instagram’s algorithms have been out there guiding pedophiles to sources of child pornography.
Read about efforts to improve the extended foster care system in Connecticut, where youth can get help until age 23.
That’s all for now! Thanks for reading!