- Target:
- childrens' protective services
- Region:
- United States of America
- Website:
- www.witnessjustice.org
I as well as numerous other families have had children's protective services not take action with a family I reported when I witnessed abuse.
Childrens' services has a long history of removing children who shouldn't be removed and not removing children who should be removed. Thousands of families have been devestated by their action and nonaction. There are many reforms which this agency needs to take action on. I believe that the first action needs to be to establish an appeals process for decisions made by childrens' services.
There is an appeals process for the court system, for determination of public benifits and we need one for the process of determining childrens' safety. Training is less than minimal in childrens' services and frequently decisions are based on personal biases and unless onre has the money for an attorney there is not much a person can do about these decisions.
An appeals process would at least give a family an unbias step in a process which hurts children as much as it helps them.
I request that at the federal level an appeals process is established to provide another vehicle for a family to dispute a decision they disagree with made by childrens' protective services.
Due process should be afforded to every family effected by this agency.
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The Appeal process for childrens' protective services petition to childrens' protective services was written by Linda Lindquist and is in the category Children's Rights at GoPetition.