Foster care is often preferred to other placement options for children in the child welfare
system. However, it is not clear how the developmental outcomes of foster children relate to …

Understanding the source of disparities found at decision-making points along the child
welfare pathway is essential to understanding and addressing the overrepresentation of …

The assessment of risk is a critical part of child welfare agency practice. This review of the
research literature on different instruments for assessing risk and safety in child welfare …

This study compares child welfare services provided to Aboriginal (Indian) and Caucasian
children in Canada. The findings suggest that child welfare reports involving Aboriginal …

OBJECTIVE:: To examine whether children with substantiated maltreatment reports between
4 and 8 years of age differ from children with unsubstantiated reports on any of 10 …

Substantiation rates have long been the primary variable associated with research into child
protective services (CPS) early intervention. Rates of substantiation have been used to …

Researchers conduct secondary analysis of data collected in community-based focus
groups convened to analyze key decision points where racial disproportionality grew wider …

Three reasons are most often provided to explain the persistent overrepresentation of black
children in the child welfare system. One, since black families have more risk factors …

OBJECTIVE: This paper examined the relative influence of clinical and organizational
characteristics on the decision to place a child in out-of-home care at the conclusion of a …

Child protection work inevitably involves uncertainty, ambiguity and fallibility. The
knowledge base is limited, predictions about the child's future welfare are imperfect, and …