Child Protection Lessons

A look at the lessons that arise from child protection errors and other issues including those that arise from deaths of children involved in systems in the western world.

Monday, September 27, 2010

Death Review themes get repeated way too often

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While the work of a Cleveland Ohio panel looking into a series of deaths in families is not yet done, their preliminary work is suggesting a...

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Is Foster Care Better

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A sad reality in parts of the Western world is that foster care may not be better than the home that the children left. Group care has major...

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Foster Care and Stability

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I was recently thinking about a variety of cases where children have been shuffled between foster homes creating a pattern of instability fo...

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Dying for the wrong reasons

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Children who go into foster care should be there for the right reasons and expect safety, nurturance and support as they struggle with what ...

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Friday, September 17, 2010

Children and their substance abusing parents

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In 2007, Scottish researcher Dr. M. Barnard wrote the fascinating book Dtug Addiction and Families which chronicled various types of experie...

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Delays hurt children

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In recent posts, we have been looking at issues related to workloads. A report published in the UK a few days ago reaffirms that children re...

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Workload and Caseload Management

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As discussed in a previous post, overloading workers is contrary to effective case management. The Child Welfare Information Gateway in the ...

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