No one in New Jersey, and few people nationwide, have shown as keen an understanding of what's wrong with child welfare, and what needs to be done to fix it, as Kevin Ryan. But the big question to me is Will he be allowed the time to do the job
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It is smart and sensible. It goes to the heart of the key problems Newsday identified in its story Sunday Coordination, training, and a need for more intensive services. It is impressive that the plan to hire new caseworkers doesn't just include investigators who decide whether to take a child out of a home -- it also bolsters a unit designed to help children safely remain in their homes.Richard Wexler
It will doom thousands of children to the needless trauma of foster care.
Richard Wexler
Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing.
Richard Wexler
It is easy for agencies that operate in secret like DCF to gain too much power over families. These kinds of checks and balances ensure that DCF will have to do more to justify its decision.
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Since they (foster children) never had a parent, they have no place to go.
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