In addition, a 24 - 7 hotline and statewide database will
track reports of abuse, along with a statewide register of workers who have committed acts of abuse will be bared from working with people with special needs.
Not exact matches
He pressed Schneiderman on the findings
of a recent
report by Inspector General Joseph Fisch, which detailed a litany
of abuse regarding the state senator's handling
of a controversial deal to build a racino at the Aquaduct
track.
State Senate Democrats called for fast -
tracking legislation that would force administrators
of private schools to
report sexual
abuse allegations to law enforcement — a mandate that currently applies to public schools.
Tragically, almost 2,000 cases
of animal
abuse and animal cruelty are
reported in the media each year, with countless more that go unreported because the FBI has only recently begun
tracking these statistics.
Strengthening Texas Courts for the Safety, Permanency, and Well Being
of Children in Foster Care (PDF - 472 KB) Task Force on Child Protection Case Management and
Reporting, Supreme Court
of Texas (2006) Summarizes challenges to unified data collection, sharing, and analysis among judges who hear child protection cases in Texas, discusses progress toward a uniform statewide system for managing and
tracking data on child
abuse and neglect cases, and suggests best practices for measuring and improving court performance.
Conclusions Although findings are at best mixed with respect to the effectiveness
of home - visiting programs in preventing child neglect, evidence is mounting that these programs can positively alter parenting practices and, to a lesser extent, children's cognitive development.121 Given the many measurement problems associated with accurately
tracking substantiated cases
of abuse and neglect, what is needed is not more evaluations
of CPS
reports attempting to show reductions in child
abuse and neglect, but rather the development
of new measures by which researchers can make sensitive and accurate assessments
of child maltreatment.
The
report's recommendations focus on two main
tracks related to child fatalities: New approaches to responding to
abuse and neglect
reports, and an augmentation
of the services available to help address the type
of family stressors that can lead to tragedy.