Today's guest blogger is Holly Gilbert. In 2013 Reuters did an investigation into a phenomenon known as “Re-homing” and published it in an article titled The Child Exchange. Many of the children involved in this re-homing were children who were “hard to place” children in the foster care system, were more likely to have higher [...]
Author: Mario Cattabiani is the Director of Communications at Ross Feller Casey- one of the law firms that helped bring justice to several of the Sandusky victims. Jerry Sandusky initially made a name for himself during the 32 years that he spent on the football coaching staff at Penn State. He also founded the Second [...]
Today's highlighted bill, H.R. 3766: Jeremy Bell Act of 2011, was introduced on December 23rd by Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick. The proposed bill would penalize by fine, imprisonment, or both, public and private school employers who complete interstate transfers of employees who are child sex offenders. The bill also addresses sexual conduct reporting standards for employees [...]
(Updated November 26 with new legislation. -HNO) Due to the intense media coverage of the child sexual abuse scandal at Penn State, it seems that a blog post on mandated reporting in child welfare might be quite relevant and useful. Although the media can be helpful in bringing child welfare issues to the top of [...]
Hello again! Over the past few weeks we have been working to revamp our policy blog and plan for the upcoming legislative session here in Minnesota. Below you will find our child welfare legislative roundup for the month of September so far. For the remainder of September we will be highlighting the federal Child and [...]