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child welfare
noun
- social work aimed at improving the lives of disadvantaged children.
Word History and Origins
Origin of child welfare1
Example Sentences
They believe if they take the kids home, or to the city’s unlocked child welfare facility, they will simply run back to those exploiting them.
Supporters of those measures have argued moving foster youth into homes can reduce a child’s time in the child welfare system and create permanency for them – and that federal funding should be pumped into those efforts.
It inspects child welfare facilities, including residential treatment and detention centers, for compliance with licensing rules and laws.
Back then, and to this day, child welfare investigations proceeded more rapidly than criminal investigations, Malchick said, because police and prosecutors had to prove in court, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a crime had occurred.
Telling parents they will be investigated by child welfare officials when they won’t is not a great look.
Many parents have been defeated in their efforts to get help from child welfare departments.
If the issue that brought a child into foster care is homelessness, child welfare systems must find parents housing.
Missouri and county child welfare officials declined to discuss the case.
The Plunket group is a charity that promotes child welfare in New Zealand.
Platt served two years in prison while her daughters were placed with a child welfare agency.
Survey has others on child welfare in all its aspects, settlement work, etc.
As they resumed their journey to Salt Lake City, no one in the plane discussed economic conditions or child welfare.
The newly established Ministry of Health has wide schemes for maternity and child welfare.
The object of the Child Welfare Exhibit is to promote the best interests of children.
Yet large numbers of parents make the thought of child welfare subordinate to their own desires.
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