6 May 2008
Software Helps Agencies Manage Foster Care For Texas Kids — SaaS — InformationWeek
When Texas authorities raided a polygamous religious sect’s ranch last month, it spotlighted a complex tangle of issues, including finding foster care for 463 kids removed from the compound.
However, the processes involved in placing and tracking these children — as well as the tens of thousands of kids nationally each year that are placed in foster care — are also very complicated, and for the most part, are still typically handled through burdensome and error-prone paper-based procedures.
9 April 2008
State audit: DSS improving foster care oversight – BostonHerald.com
A state audit has found continued improvement by the Department of Social Service in its handling of the state’s foster care system.
31 March 2008
Lancaster Eagle-Gazette – Cuyahoga County refuses to join foster care system
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Cuyahoga County is refusing to join a new statewide computer system for tracking abused and neglected foster children because of continued technical problems, officials said.
28 March 2008
Federal Appeals Court Agrees To End Alabama’s Foster Care Oversight – News – NBC13.com
A federal appeals court has agreed it’s time to end federal oversight of Alabama’s child welfare system.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a decision by U.S. District Judge Ira DeMent of Montgomery to end the case last year after 19 years of litigation and court oversight.