Campaign to improve Indigenous child protection

Campaign to improve Indigenous child protection - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation):

Australia's peak body for Indigenous families is launching a year-long project to address the rising rates of Indigenous children being placed in out-of-home care.

Group Highlights Child Custody Battles For Medical Marijuana Patients

Group Highlights Child Custody Battles For Medical Marijuana Patients:

Moms for Marijuana International is holding rallies in North America and Europe in an effort to change the notion that marijuana users are unfit parents.

Hundreds of medical marijuana patients throughout the U.S. who use the drug for help with various medical conditions are losing custody of their children — even in states where medical marijuana is legal.

Vigilance plea over care children

Vigilance plea over care children - Independent.ie:

Allegations of sexual and physical abuse made by children in care were not fully investigated by health chiefs, scathing reports have found.

Deal: State to hire hundreds of child welfare workers

Deal: State to hire hundreds of child welfare workers | www.ajc.com:

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Gov. Nathan Deal wants to spend $27 million to hire 425 new caseworkers over the next three years for the state Division of Family and Children’s Services, a spokesman said Wednesday.

Hearing to try and uncover CPS problems

Hearing to try and uncover CPS problems:

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - Erie County is looking to make changes at Child Protective Services, Thursday. Erie County CPS has been under the microscope following the deaths of Eain Brooks and Abdi Mohamud.

'Children of the market' face US adoption nightmare

'Children of the market' face US adoption nightmare — RT Op-Edge:

A lack of legal oversight allows American parents to get rid of kids adopted overseas with impunity. Roelie Post of the organization Against Child Trafficking told RT about how “the children of the market” remain invisible in the surveillance-obsessed US.

Ore. child welfare worker fired for Facebook rant

Ore. child welfare worker fired for Facebook rant | kgw.com Portland:

Portland, Ore.-- A Facebook rant cost an Oregon child welfare worker her job. Recently, a court agreed she could be fired for her online posts.