New federal data shows Maine’s child welfare agency is moving against national trends
“We’re flooding the system,” said one child advocate, arguing that Maine is failing to keep kids safe not because it is investigating too few families but because it is investigating too many.
The list of Maine parents waiting for a lawyer grew by 700 percent in 2024 — and it may not account for the whole problem
As some attorneys question whether the state’s list of unstaffed cases is properly maintained, there are efforts to build a team of public defenders devoted to representing indigent parents in child protection cases.
Federal audit finds Maine’s child welfare agency failed to follow its own policies
Inspectors made a series of recommendations, including additional training for caseworkers and supervisors and a system for documenting when notification letters are sent out.
Maine’s watchdog agency spent years investigating four child deaths. Here are the takeaways.
OPEGA presented its final report to the legislature last week. Lawmakers wanted to know: What could the child welfare office have done differently?
“Maine has lost sight of parents’ and children’s right to be together”: The case of Barni A.
A state supreme court case found a mother’s parental rights were unfairly terminated, providing a rare glimpse inside the opaque child welfare system.
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