If we are to begin to solve any problems in the child-welfare system, we must start by providing decent housing.

He was outspoken in his demand for reform of the child-welfare system.

B1 Connecticut's child-welfare system will be put under the direction of an outside panel.

Parents need advocates separate from the child-welfare system to ensure that all the facts are weighed carefully when a family's fate lies in the balance.

The remaining 200,000 are in the child-welfare system, which includes foster care and orphanages.

The employer is a civil organization independent from the school and the child-welfare system (independence).

In the months that followed, the child-welfare system missed what may have been its last, best opportunity to salvage the Cortez children.

The State of Connecticut is turning over the direction of its child-welfare system to an outside panel under a court agreement.

Advocates for children say child-welfare systems need to move more quickly either to return these babies to their parents or to find them adoptive homes.

He sponsored improvements in the prison system, the child-welfare system and the administration of juvenile justice.