Legislature Committee Urges Faster Action on Child‑protection Failures
MLAs added 20 recommendations after an audit found missed safety checks, delayed investigations and staffing gaps, with more than half of social workers lacking training evidence.
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Advocate sees change underway in Yukon child welfare system following damning reports
Annette King, the territory's child and youth advocate, says her office had "a lot of concerns" about the state of child and family services in the territory, but says "we are seeing some changes."
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(Photo: Jeniffer Solis/Nevada Current)Nevada state lawmakers are considering a wide-range of health-related policies in the next year’s legislative session that includes implementing a slate of maternal health protections in a “momnibus” bill, bolstering efforts to investigate Medicaid insurance fraud, and reducing reporting requirements for state health agencies. Also at Tuesday’s interim Health and Human Services committee meeting, discussion…
Yukon committee calls for urgent action following child welfare audit
A non-partisan committee of Yukon MLAs says it’s “not convinced” the Department of Health and Social Services has sufficiently considered recommendations from a scathing Auditor General’s report on its Child and Family Services branch – and is calling for quick action to address ongoing concerns. The statement stems from a new report released by the Standing Committee on Public Accounts – made up of MLAs from the territory’s three parties – whic…
The expertise in child protection should be consistently high, because it is about the lives and future of children, states the opinion writer.
Lack of places, shortage of professionals, dry outings by the majority: child protection is going through a structural crisis that affects 400,000 minors in France, says Mélanie Pauvros. Innovative responses are emerging on the ground, but are still struggling to change scale.
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