Does mandatory reporting of child abuse help or hurt? A Colorado task force is taking a second look.
“The way our mandatory reporting system exists right now — my opinion is that it does more harm than it does good,” Jerry Milner told the state’s Mandatory Reporting Task Force last month.
Milner is former head of the Children’s Bureau, a federal agency tasked with child abuse prevention. He said listening to families, including children, who have been negatively impacted by intrusive and damaging investigations by child protective services changed his mind about a policy he once endorsed.
Read this article by Kristin Jones in the Colorado Sun.
Posted by rbchatelle on Saturday, March 18th, 2023 @ 5:17PM
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