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Title: | Ministerial versus discretionary acts or omissions in child welfare litigation. |
Authors: | MacIver, Andrea Pollack, Daniel 0000-0001-7323-6928 |
Keywords: | ministerial acts discretionary acts child welfare litigation official immunity tort liability Walker v. Gilbert Williams v. Horton Mississippi Department of Human Services v. S.W. James ex rel. James v. Friend Georgia Department of Human Services. v. Spruill County of Los Angeles v. Superior Court Ortega v. Sacramento County Department of Health & Human Services AE v. County of Tulare Scott v. County of Los Angeles Brodie v. Summit County Children Services Board Political Subdivision Tort Liability Act (Act) §2744.02(A)(1) civil liability |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
Publisher: | Capital University Law School |
Citation: | MacIver, A.; Pollack, D. (2016). Ministerial versus discretionary acts or omissions in child welfare ligitgation. Capital University Law Review, 44(1), 103-126. |
Series/Report no.: | Capital University Law Review;44(1) |
Abstract: | Too often the child welfare system fails our children, especially foster children, leaving our most vulnerable population at risk of harm. Many children in the welfare system are injured or even killed because “[t]he system frequently fails to provide children with stable, secure care” and “fails to meet foster children’s basic medical, psychological, and emotional needs.” This system-wide failure is the result of several recurring problems, which are on the rise, including: inadequate investigation of prospective foster parents and their families, placing children in inappropriate homes, overcrowded foster homes, placing children with first-time foster parents who are inexperienced and become overwhelmed, and inadequate supervision of foster homes. These recurring problems have resulted in harm to those children under the care of the child welfare system, leading many of them to seek redress in the courts. |
Description: | Peer-reviewed scholarly article |
URI: | https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/capulr44&i=113 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/4666 |
ISSN: | 0198-9693 |
Appears in Collections: | Wurzweiler School of Social Work: Faculty publications |
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