Did we really foster a bomber?
The foster parents of the prime suspect in the Parsons Green terror attack have been left shell-shocked by the ordeal, their son has said.
Spencer Jones said the home of mother Penny, 71, and father Ron Jones, 88, in Sunbury, which has been inspected by forensic officers for the last week, is a “place of love and tolerance”.
The couple, awarded MBEs for services to children and families, have fostered almost 300 children together.
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Pennsylvania CPS Agents Want More Money
That’s one of the shocking revelations in a scathing report issued earlier this month by Auditor General Eugene DePasquale after a six-month review of the state’s system of child protection.
As Pennsylvania policymakers struggle to figure out how to fix a child protection system the auditor general describes as “broken,” almost everyone agrees that one nettlesome aspect of the problem is keeping caseworkers on the job.
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Housing foster kids in offices
Over the past year, children in the state’s foster care system have had to spend the night in contractors’ offices more than 100 times. The Kansas Department for Children and Families works with Saint Francis Community Services and KVC Health Systems to administer the foster care system, and these contractors recently informed the Child Welfare Task Force about the number of overnight stays. According to Rachel Marsh, the director of public policy at Saint Francis, “It is actually an office because we don’t want to normalize this in any way. So they would end up on a couch or a makeshift bed.” But when something is happening this often, hasn’t it already been normalized?
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Seperating Siblings
“I had to tell her that (her siblings) weren’t here anymore. ... This poor little girl — mind you, still in counseling — had a meltdown,” Post said.
The child cried all afternoon, Post said.
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Michigan LGBT's want your kids too
“This suit challenging Michigan's law is mean-spirited, divisive and intolerant,” the Michigan Catholic Conference said Sept. 20.
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North Carolina is failing to protect abused and neglected children
The mobile home in Fayetteville where the infant lived with his two young brothers was filthy and unsafe, according to whoever reported the family to the Department of Social Services. The source also said the children’s parents weren’t supervising them.
Little was done.
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A Young Foster Molester
Felony charges were filed this week against a man accused of sexually assaulting a foster child that was being cared for at a Hudson home.
St. Croix County prosecutors charged 21-year-old Desmond M. LaPean with one count of first-degree sexual assault of a child under 12 and repeated sexual assault. St. Croix County Circuit Court Judge Eric Lundell ordered the Minneapolis resident held on $50,000 cash bond at his initial appearance Monday, Sept. 18.
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Where did she go?
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Another sad and pathetic failure thanks to the Kansas Child Protective Industry
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