State videos show what working in health and human services is really like, aiming to reduce turnover

State videos show what working in health and human services is really like, aiming to reduce turnover | Concord Monitor:

If anyone should have known what to expect from a career as a child protective services worker, it would have been Erin Dudley. Before she received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and her master’s in social work, she grew up in a family that provided a home for foster children.

Judge denies bid to have kids returned to parents

Judge denies bid to have kids returned to parents - Winnipeg Free Press:

BRANDON -- About 40 Mennonite children remain in the care of provincial Child and Family Services after a lawyer made an unsuccessful bid to get some of them home.

Social worker caught delivering £500,000 of cannabis

Social worker caught delivering £500,000 of cannabis - Local - Lancashire Evening Post:

A social worker was caught delivering £500,000 of cannabis in her car after driving from Lancashire to Scotland.

When Foster Care Hurts

The Tyee – When Foster Care Hurts:

Can US-style litigation help fix Canadian child protection services?

Note: I wouldn't count on it. U.S. Child Protective Services is just as bad as Canada's Child Protection Services, if not worse. The U.S. can't fix their own Child protective Services let alone teach another Country how to fix theirs!

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Sexual abuse on the rise at U.S. juvenile detention facilities

Sexual abuse on the rise at U.S. juvenile detention facilities - Salon.com:

According to the Justice Department, the majority of cases are between female staffers and teen boys in custody

The older authority figure wins the trust of the young target by cultivating a false friendship, having heart-to-heart conversations, giving gifts, offering protection. And then the sex ensues, sometimes forced, sometimes seemingly consensual.

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DCS hires unqualified workers

DCS hires unqualified workers | The Tennessean | tennessean.com:

I am writing in response to statements made by Gerald Papica, state ombudsman for children and families, in the June 30 article “After kids’ deaths, Clay County couple try to regain custody of third child.”

Children's ministry sided with sexually abusive father, court finds

Children's ministry sided with sexually abusive father, court finds:

B.C. child-welfare authorities forced a mother to fight charges that she was mentally unstable for nearly three years after they seized her four children and provided an opportunity for her Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ex to continue his sexual abuse.

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