Thousands of Massachusetts parents face scrutiny from the state’s child protection system and, with it, the all-consuming ...
Thousands of Massachusetts parents face scrutiny from the state’s child ... see themselves as part of a national movement to reform the child welfare system by introducing more due process ...
According to the GIC’s report for the year 2022-23, six departments – agriculture, farmers welfare ... under scrutiny received less than 100 complaints each, with the social justice department ...
Pryce is not the first expert to argue that the child welfare system places disproportionate scrutiny on Black families ... a job as an investigator in the Department of Children and Families ...
It also comes as the governor seeks to put more investment into the state’s historically troubled child welfare agency ... of the state’s Department of Juvenile Justice, as Smith’s replacement.
Parents are supposed to have 10 to 14 days to respond to accusations, but instead are sometimes waiting weeks or months while ...
The decision rules that minors at open-air sites were in legal federal custody and must receive safe shelter, even if they ...
“The ability to exercise discretion over, and make decisions affecting, a child’s health and welfare is indicative ... In response, lawyers for the Department of Justice argued that because ...
The head of the state's child protection agency is stepping down after eight months on the job. Jeff Fleischer is leaving his post as director of the Division of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) to ...
As staff have lost the ability to restrain and seclude residents in their care, they've lost control over some of the most troubled youths in Michigan.