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Opinion: City is Spinning Child-Welfare Stats
Richard Wexler |
‘ACS has retreated from reform and subjected more children to the enormous trauma of needless foster care.’
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Opinion: What the Data Says About Child Welfare in New York City
David Hansell |
‘In 2018, the number of children in foster care in New York City fell another 6 percent, while nationally the number of young people in foster care has steadily increased over the last few years.’
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Tragedy, Advocates, Pols Paved Way for Bid to Keep Detained Youth Closer to Home
Jarrett Murphy |
A report says complicated backstory of the city-state Close to Home program—and its early success–are a model for youth-justice systems around the country.
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Teachers Push De Blasio for Pre-K Pay Equity as New Era for System Approaches
Jarrett Murphy |
The de Blasio administration is moving to consolidate and expand its birth-to-five education programs. Will it take this opportunity to address a yawning gap between what city teachers and their nonprofit counterparts make?
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: It’s Time to Provide Legal Help to Families Facing Child-Welfare Probes
Michele Cortese and Tehra Coles |
‘It’s time we recognize that the interests at stake for parents under ACS investigation are just as compelling, with consequences that can be just as grave, as in a criminal case.’
ACS
New Push to Provide Legal Advice to Parents Facing Abuse and Neglect Investigations
Rachel Blustain |
When facing the possible loss of their children, New York state parents have the right to a lawyer only when a case moves to court. Even then some counties fail to provide them. And many key decisions are made before a case ever gets to a judge.
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Listen: City Limits Reporter Discusses Abuse in Foster Care
Jarrett Murphy |
The number of foster-care cases in New York City has dropped substantially over recent years. But what has risen over the same period is the number of children who suffer abuse while in foster care.
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Challenge for City’s Child-Welfare System Overshadowed by De Blasio-Peters Feud
Harry DiPrinzio |
ACS says it has a plan to deal with the rising incidence of abuse incidents involving kids in foster care. But making it work could prove to be a challenge.
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The Kids are Leaving Rikers. Is it Really a New Day for Juvenile Justice in NYC?
Harry DiPrinzio |
Not so fast. With Raise the Age going into effect this week, the city’s 16- and 17-year-olds in custody are just moving from one jail to another.
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CityViews: Gov. Cuomo, Don’t Pass a Budget on the Backs of Our Children
Karen Freedman |
‘At a time when the number of children in foster care continues to grow in the rest of the country, New York is a model for keeping children safe.’ Will the money to support that work be withdrawn?
