Social work conference urges greater ‘father-friendly’ culture in child protection

Care Appointments | Social work conference urges greater ‘father-friendly’ culture in child protection:

When family difficulties mean that children are at risk of abuse or neglect and face being taken into care or becoming candidates for adoption, how can their fathers be brought back into the equation? 

Federal, Local Authorities Form Child Exploitation Task Force

Federal, Local Authorities Form Child Exploitation Task Force:

HARLINGEN – Federal authorities announced a new task force in the lower Rio Grande Valley to combat crimes against children. Investigators with Homeland Security Investigations are teaming up with Brownsville police, Harlingen police, the Cameron County District Attorney’s Office and the Cameron County Sheriff’s Office.

Supervising social worker in case of abused Palmdale boy can have his job back, judge rules

Supervising social worker in case of abused Palmdale boy can have his job back, judge rules:

A judge has allowed a supervising social worker who was fired amid an investigation into the death of an 8-year-old Palmdale boy to have his job back until a court hearing on the employee’s firing is held in May.

Trailblazing therapy helps warring parents work together in the interests of their children

Trailblazing therapy helps warring parents work together in the interests of their children:

The Parents in Dispute Therapeutic programme engages with the most difficult cases and provides an alternative to protracted and damaging court battles for separated couples and their children

A new programme has demonstrated that it is possible to successfully engage parents 'entrenched' in emotionally damaging and costly legal disputes surrounding the care of their children.

DCYF report: Staff burnout, turnover rate reaches all-time high

DCYF report: Staff burnout, turnover rate reaches all-time high | Health - WMUR Home:

DCYF currently has 176 child protection service workers, with a turnover rate around 50 percent in the past two years.The report states that staffing is inadequate and burnout is at an all-time high.

How Smart Do You Have to Be to Raise a Child?

How Smart Do You Have to Be to Raise a Child? -- The Cut:

The state said a 19-year-old with an intellectual disability wasn’t equipped to look after her baby and whisked the newborn off to another family just after birth—a decision the mother was ready to fight. But how smart do you have to be to raise a child?

Banning spankings at home will punish good parents – church

Banning spankings at home will punish good parents – church | City Press:

Good parents would end up in prison if legislative amendments go ahead prohibiting children from being spanked at home.