Here are today's headlines.
Check back later. You never know when I might update this post.
Late last month, the Times made some rather astounding claims that Tower Hamlets council had placed a five-year-old white, British Christian girl into the care of a niqab-wearing Muslim family who didn’t speak English. As a qualified children’s social worker with more than 20 years’ experience, I suspected the story was exaggerated. My suspicions were confirmed within the next few days as the council claimed there were numerous errors in the reporting of the case and a court order was published.
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This year, another 10,000 children would have left care, what will happen to them?
What happens when a kid has to leave care after their eighteenth birthday? Are they able to get a job? Do they go to university? Has the government, seen as the ‘parents’, given them the tools needed to succeed in their future endeavours?
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BENGALURU: At a health camp held in a reputed school in BTM Layout recently, a doctor and his staff were accused of abusing some girls.The students reached out to a teacher, who passed on the information to Childline Bangalore. But when she was asked to support the investigation, she pulled back. Even the girls' parents decided to stay quiet, saying the matter had been resolved.
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Joel Kurtinitis’ opinion piece, “Attacks on homeschooling are short on facts” [Sept. 10], was missing some facts of its own.
Kurtinitis compared our database of homeschool abuse cases to the number of reports investigated by child protective services annually to claim that homeschool students are 4,000 times less likely to be abused. This is absurd. Our database includes only cases that are both especially horrific and hit the news. Even so, when we compared the fatalities in our database with a comprehensive list of child abuse fatalities nationwide we found that homeschooled children were no less likely to die from child abuse than children who attend school.
More >> Homeschool children are no more, no less likely to die from child abuse
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NORMAN, Oklahoma - A Norman teen is in a coma after he was injured at a state-contracted group home. His mother says she can't get any answers about what happened.
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GRAND FORKS, N.D. (Valley News Live) Internal emails revealed concerns with the leadership of the CPS department ultimately lead 11 people to leave a department of 7 people in just over a year's time.
More >> Families, former social worker claim dysfunctional CPS department is hurting kids
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Tiahleigh Palmer’s foster brother could be freed by January next year after being sentenced to four years in jail on Thursday afternoon.
Trent Thorburn pleaded guilty to four charges, including incest, after admitting to his mother in 2015 that he had had sex with then 12-year-old Palmer.
More >> Anger over 'pathetic' sentence for Tiahleigh Palmer's foster brother
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LINCOLN — Nebraska youths in state care attempted suicide in rising numbers last year, according to a new report.
More >> Report: Suicide attempts, sexual abuse cases rise among young Nebraskans in state care
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James Dunn is a former Lake County Foster Parent of the Year who fostered 12 different children with no complaints.
Now, the 42-year-old Concord Township resident will never be allowed to foster another child again.
More >> Former Lake County Foster Parent of the Year sentenced for crimes against boys
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Cape Town - A Khayelitsha father, 59, who has been charged with sodomising, raping and sexually abusing his now 16-year-old foster daughter between 2007 and 2013, will know next week whether he will be granted bail.
More >> Alleged rapist of foster daughter pleads for bail
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The number of child abuse investigations in Bucks County has nearly doubled over the last two years, while the annual turnover rate for caseworkers who investigate those claims is twice as high as it was before 2015.
More >> PA auditor general: Child-welfare system 'breakdowns' put kids at risk for abuse, death
