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Under Pressure: How the City's Child Welfare System Responded to Recent High-Profile Tragedies

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The deaths of two young children in 2016 sent shock waves through the city's child welfare system. The number of reports of suspected child abuse or maltreatment escalated in the following months. Did this result in more substantiated cases of abuse? More children placed under court supervision or in foster care? IBO explores these and related questions

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  • 2018-07-24