Child Abuse and Neglect: Pleadings & Practitioner Materials

"This manual replaces the Children's Bureau's former policy issuance system. This Child Welfare Policy Manual updates and reformats all of the existing relevant policy issuances (Policy Announcements and Policy Interpretation Questions) into an easy to use question and answer format. This manual is broken down into nine main policy areas (with detailed subsections): AFCARS, CAPTA, Independent Living, MEPA/IEAP, Monitoring, SACWIS, Title IV-B, Title IV-E, Tribes/Indian Tribal Organizations. Future policy guidance will be disseminated in this format and announced as "Updates!" to the manual. This web-based manual ensures that the most current policy information is available to the States in the quickest and most accurate way."

"Written for new child protective services (CPS) caseworkers, professionals working with children and families, other professionals and concerned community members, this manual addresses the definition, scope, causes, and consequences of child abuse and neglect. It presents an overview of prevention efforts and the child protection process from identification and reporting through investigation and assessment to service provision and case closure. This manual is intended to accompany each profession-specific manual in the User Manual Series. Appendices include a glossary of terms, resource listings of selected national organizations concerned with child maltreatment, and State toll-free child abuse reporting numbers."

"This benchbook is a compilation of promising and science-informed practices as well as a legal resource guide. It is a comprehensive tool for judges, providing information regarding legal and non-legal considerations in dependency cases."

"This compilation includes civil and criminal state, District of Columbia, territory and federal statutes as of
November 2012 regarding mandated reporting of suspected child abuse and neglect. Please note there may
have been changes to this area of law since our last update. Please feel free to contact us at (703) 549-9222
for further discussion on updates to the information included in this document."

"This information is provided in PDF and MS Word 97 formats. The PDF format requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 3.0 or higher) which can be downloaded from Adobe at no charge. The MS Word format requires MS Word 97 or above."

"The judge is most concerned with being fair and reasonable. Your pleading must be read with the ultimate test: Will it stand under scrutiny of someone who is most concerned with being fair and reasonable?"
This document includes an outline of everything you should include in a family law pleading.