it's been my experience that the responsible press can carefully protect the identity and identifying information on the individual case while still discussing the public policy issues. |
supplying enough of the right resources for the child protection system to carry out its three-fold mission (protecting children, preserving families and providing permanent homes for children.) |
The child protection system needs real changes and real solutions to underlying problems, not attacking symptoms with band-aids. It needs to prevent disturbing issues and tragic incidents from occurring rather than applying a cosmetic to a preventable wound. For that to happen the public's chief informant, the media, has to get into the game. |
the confidentiality and denial of access laws ... more often than not fail to serve the overall, long-term best interests of children. |
whether it is sufficiently meeting systemic needs is largely left up to whether we trust the government. |