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RE: A letter to hold Child Protective Services accountable

in #ungrip7 years ago

The post has been upvoted and resteemed! I started to follow you to see more of your work!

I honestly don't know the statutes and laws in Canada, as I am assuming this is written for, but almost all of this is inaccurate for statutes in the United States, or, at least in Florida, where I worked in Child Welfare for almost 9 years.

  1. It doesn't matter what you call your children.. You can call them flower pots for all I care, that doesn't change the notion that they are definitely your children.
  2. I have access to almost all birth certificates.
  3. Statutes cover me looking into all records under "best interest of child" without you signing anything for me.
  4. I have never received a bonus for anything as a child welfare worker.
  5. We do not have to disclose all information to the family. To be specific, we are NEVER allowed to disclose who the reporter is, and we will go to jail for disclosing that information. If the reporter made a false report, we can submit a complaint to the State Attorney Office. Most of the time they do not pursue charges.
  6. CPS loves reports? I don't even know how to address that outlandish claim.
  7. If a family does not want to be compliant, and refuses entry to a home or to speak face to face about a case, I would then have to get a court order to grant entry. It technically did not slow me down much. i could get a court order in that hour sometimes. The longest it ever took was 24 hours. I have only been denied one court order, and it was because it was being filed against my own wishes, and I even thought we didn't have jurisdiction and ZERO proof.

I do appreciate that you are trying to give some advice, I just want you to make sure it is clearly correct.