Editorial: Learn from child welfare failures

Editorial: Learn from child welfare failures:
Government must act to eliminate deaths of children in care

Social services reopening cases after child was handcuffed to porch

Social services reopening cases after child was handcuffed to porch | North Carolina News - WYFF Home:

Foster mother was a welfare supervisor

MONROE, N.C. (AP) —North Carolina officials say Union County's social services department will have to reopen or review a handful of cases of possible child abuse and neglect to make sure workers didn't mishandle them.

Trial starts Tuesday in mother’s lawsuit against DHS

Trial starts Tuesday in mother’s lawsuit against DHS | TheGazette:

Woman claims agency violated her constitutional rights when her daughter was placed in foster care

Kids For Sale to Make Room For New Ones

New PSAs Raise Awareness of the 31,000 Older Youth Awaiting Adoption in the U.S. Foster Care System | Reuters:

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, nearly 102,000 children (under 18 years of age) are available for adoption from the foster care system in the United States; more than 30 percent (31,000) are between the ages of 11 and 17, according to the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis Report System (AFCARS 2012). To encourage prospective parents to consider adopting an older youth from foster care, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, AdoptUSKids and the Ad Council are unveiling new public service advertisements (PSAs) today.    

Sask. foster mom dies nearly a year after child death acquittal

Sask. foster mom dies nearly a year after child death acquittal | News Talk 980 CJME:

Stress of trial may have contributed to her death: husband

No charges filed in North Georgia foster care child death investigation

No charges filed in North Georgia foster care child death investigation | Times Free Press:

Nearly a month after a 2-year-old dies while in foster care in north Georgia no charges have been filed.

Patrick still confident in DCF commissioner

Patrick still confident in DCF commissioner | WWLP:

BOSTON (AP) – Gov. Deval Patrick says the failure of the Department of Families and Children to keep track of a 5-year-old Fitchburg boy was inexcusable, but has provided the state with anopportunity to re-examine the agency.