BEVERLY TRAN: New York Child Welfare Found To Be Poorly Managed
This is rather an interesting angle taken by the Independent Democratic Conference. Now let's see them do a report of the various types of fraud schemes in the New York Office of Children and Family Services.
Independent Democratic Conference: OT, Workers Comp Woes At Children And Family Services
BY CELESTE KATZ
The Office of Children and Family Services has increased overtime costs and experienced a drastic spike in worker's comp claims, the Senate's breakawayIndependent Democratic Conference says in a new report.
The numbers come as the overall number of youths under OCFS supervision has decreased from 983 during this beginning of the 2009-2010 fiscal year to roughly 700 currently.
Said state Sen. Jeff Klein, “There is no good reason why costs and workplace violence are rising, while the numbers of youths under OCFS supervision are falling. Gov. Cuomo has made revamping our juvenile justice system a priority. Based on our findings, this reform cannot come soon enough.”
Read the report.
Mayor Bloomberg is pushing for the city to regain more control over its juvenile justice system from the state.
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In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Increased number of foster care placements 'troubling,' child welfare expert says | Deseret News
Increased number of foster care placements 'troubling,' child welfare expert says | Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — The lead attorney in a class-action lawsuit that challenged Utah's child welfare practices rejects the suggestion in a recent state audit that the lawsuit has made caseworkers and court staff "risk averse," and therefore more likely to place abused and neglected children in foster care.
SALT LAKE CITY — The lead attorney in a class-action lawsuit that challenged Utah's child welfare practices rejects the suggestion in a recent state audit that the lawsuit has made caseworkers and court staff "risk averse," and therefore more likely to place abused and neglected children in foster care.
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CPS Problems? Here Are 7 Ways to Fight CPS…
CPS Problems? Here Are 7 Ways to Fight CPS…
If you’re appalled by the actions of CPS, here are some ideas for correcting the injustices:
1. Write a letter to each and every member of your county board of supervisors detailing actions that show illegal activities or injustice on the part of local caseworkers. Suggest that they cut the CPS budget if caseworkers are taking children who shouldn’t be separated from their parents. Suggest that these illegal and unjust activities could cause the county to have to deal with expensive lawsuits. Follow this up by regularly attending meetings of the county board of supervisors and by getting up to share during community participation time; use your three minutes to tell people what’s going on.
2. Write a letter to your state legislators (don’t bother with the federal legislators – they’re usually worthless and corrupt unless they’re Ron Paul or someone exactly like him.) Go for the state level legislators. Tell them that child welfare is mismanaged in your county. Then follow up by going to the capitol to try to have a face to face encounter with these legislators. Take with you a gift-offering of a folder you’ve prepared with lots of information about how corrupt and evil CPS is. Tell them you support the State Sovereignty Movement and that federal child welfare laws are a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Tenth Amendment.
3. Study your state’s social services regulations. You should be able to find a copy at your local county law library. Ask the librarian there for help finding them. If you have an open CPS case take notes on every regulation that’s being violated by your caseworker. Get photocopies of the regulations that are violated. Next, review your court order to see what orders may be violated by the caseworker. If you find discrepancies you can file for a state administrative hearing.
4. Does your county have a Grand Jury? If so, write them a letter, not about your personal case so much as about the problems of CPS injustice in general. Ask them to investigate CPS in your county.
5. If you haven’t already, write a Legal Declaration to clarify each point of malfeasance by caseworkers and others involved in your case. As when writing any letter or legal document, NEVER include any self-incriminating type of statement. Give this to your attorney. If he won’t see you in person, mail it to him and request (1) a response, and (2) that it be presented to the judge for the next hearing.
6. If your caseworker’s report to the court contains inaccurate statements, misrepresentations, or lies, create a legal document called “Objections and Corrections to the Report of the Social Worker” and as with the Legal Declaration, send it to your lawyer to be presented to the court.
Links to legal documents samples are here: Legal Document and Information Library.
7. If your caseworker is violating your court order or state social service regulations, treating you disrespectfully, or in any other way doing something you believe is wrong, write a letter to the county personnel department with a detailed complaint about the person. This will probably keep the caseworker from ever getting a promotion in that county. He or she might also get demoted, or fired.
I hope you find some solutions that will work for you.
If you’re appalled by the actions of CPS, here are some ideas for correcting the injustices:
1. Write a letter to each and every member of your county board of supervisors detailing actions that show illegal activities or injustice on the part of local caseworkers. Suggest that they cut the CPS budget if caseworkers are taking children who shouldn’t be separated from their parents. Suggest that these illegal and unjust activities could cause the county to have to deal with expensive lawsuits. Follow this up by regularly attending meetings of the county board of supervisors and by getting up to share during community participation time; use your three minutes to tell people what’s going on.
2. Write a letter to your state legislators (don’t bother with the federal legislators – they’re usually worthless and corrupt unless they’re Ron Paul or someone exactly like him.) Go for the state level legislators. Tell them that child welfare is mismanaged in your county. Then follow up by going to the capitol to try to have a face to face encounter with these legislators. Take with you a gift-offering of a folder you’ve prepared with lots of information about how corrupt and evil CPS is. Tell them you support the State Sovereignty Movement and that federal child welfare laws are a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Tenth Amendment.
3. Study your state’s social services regulations. You should be able to find a copy at your local county law library. Ask the librarian there for help finding them. If you have an open CPS case take notes on every regulation that’s being violated by your caseworker. Get photocopies of the regulations that are violated. Next, review your court order to see what orders may be violated by the caseworker. If you find discrepancies you can file for a state administrative hearing.
4. Does your county have a Grand Jury? If so, write them a letter, not about your personal case so much as about the problems of CPS injustice in general. Ask them to investigate CPS in your county.
5. If you haven’t already, write a Legal Declaration to clarify each point of malfeasance by caseworkers and others involved in your case. As when writing any letter or legal document, NEVER include any self-incriminating type of statement. Give this to your attorney. If he won’t see you in person, mail it to him and request (1) a response, and (2) that it be presented to the judge for the next hearing.
6. If your caseworker’s report to the court contains inaccurate statements, misrepresentations, or lies, create a legal document called “Objections and Corrections to the Report of the Social Worker” and as with the Legal Declaration, send it to your lawyer to be presented to the court.
Links to legal documents samples are here: Legal Document and Information Library.
7. If your caseworker is violating your court order or state social service regulations, treating you disrespectfully, or in any other way doing something you believe is wrong, write a letter to the county personnel department with a detailed complaint about the person. This will probably keep the caseworker from ever getting a promotion in that county. He or she might also get demoted, or fired.
I hope you find some solutions that will work for you.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Drugs not approved for children still being used to treat them
Science|Business - The media network for research, industry and policy: "Drugs not approved for children still being used to treat them"
Science|Business reporting
Off-label and unauthorised drugs are still being prescribed, according to a European survey on use of medicines for children.
A survey of all uses of medicines for children shows that the prescription of off-label and unauthorised drugs is still widespread in Europe, more than three years after the European Union legislation that aimed to end this practice came into force.
The survey was commissioned as part of the European Paediatric regulation, which is intended to improve children’s healthcare by encouraging the development and availability of medicines for children aged 0 to 17 years, ensuring they are ethically researched and properly authorised.
The regulation, passed after long deliberation in 2007, is meant to achieve this without subjecting children to unnecessary trials, or delaying the authorisation of medicines for use in adults.
A wide range of drugs are being used off-label or without an appropriate marketing authorisation, with higher rates in very young children and children with very severe conditions, according to the survey. One of the main reasons is the lack of age-appropriate formulations.
The Paediatic regulation was intended to give drug companies an incentive to carry out safety testing in children, offering a six-month patent extension in the case of standard treatments, and a two-year extension to the patent life of orphan drugs – if safety and dosage trials are carried out on children.
In addition, there was a new designation, the Paediatric Use Marketing Authorisation, which provides 10 years’ patent protection for companies that carry out paediatric clinical trials of off-patent drugs.
The survey will inform the work of the European Medicines Agency’s Paediatric Committee, which maintains an inventory of the potential commercial opportunities for companies to develop paediatric medicines.
Science|Business reporting
Off-label and unauthorised drugs are still being prescribed, according to a European survey on use of medicines for children.
A survey of all uses of medicines for children shows that the prescription of off-label and unauthorised drugs is still widespread in Europe, more than three years after the European Union legislation that aimed to end this practice came into force.
The survey was commissioned as part of the European Paediatric regulation, which is intended to improve children’s healthcare by encouraging the development and availability of medicines for children aged 0 to 17 years, ensuring they are ethically researched and properly authorised.
The regulation, passed after long deliberation in 2007, is meant to achieve this without subjecting children to unnecessary trials, or delaying the authorisation of medicines for use in adults.
A wide range of drugs are being used off-label or without an appropriate marketing authorisation, with higher rates in very young children and children with very severe conditions, according to the survey. One of the main reasons is the lack of age-appropriate formulations.
The Paediatic regulation was intended to give drug companies an incentive to carry out safety testing in children, offering a six-month patent extension in the case of standard treatments, and a two-year extension to the patent life of orphan drugs – if safety and dosage trials are carried out on children.
In addition, there was a new designation, the Paediatric Use Marketing Authorisation, which provides 10 years’ patent protection for companies that carry out paediatric clinical trials of off-patent drugs.
The survey will inform the work of the European Medicines Agency’s Paediatric Committee, which maintains an inventory of the potential commercial opportunities for companies to develop paediatric medicines.
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