Settlement deal helps prevent parents’ nightmares from coming true

By Austin Berg

07/26/2018

Vague, arbitrary and overly protective rules, like we see often in Illinois, don’t do anyone any favors.

TAGS: DCFS: Department of Children and Family Services, nanny state

State drops child-neglect citation for mother who let her kids play outside

By Jeffrey Schwab

12/21/2015

An inadequate-supervision case recently dropped by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services reveals why the department must reform its policies regarding what constitutes child neglect.

TAGS: DCFS: Department of Children and Family Services

4 reforms to prevent abuse of discretion in child-welfare system

By Jeffrey Schwab

08/08/2015

Child-welfare system reforms proposed in a new report from the Family Defense Center would prevent unjust findings of inadequate supervision.

TAGS: Family Defense Center

Illinois can’t afford DCFS appropriation

12/31/2012

Paul Kersey Director of Labor Reform A state with $9 billion in unpaid bills and at least $96 billion in unfunded pension obligations cannot afford to overpay for anything, even wages for child protection workers. So while some lawmakers may want to grant the Department of Children and Family Services, or DCFS, with a supplemental...

Pathway to a Profession: How Apprenticeships Could Reshape Illinois’ Beauty Service Industry

Occupational licensing requirements present one of the steepest barriers to low-income Illinoisans starting careers in beauty services. Illinois requires anyone seeking to become a barber, cosmetologist, nail technician or hair braider to obtain a state license, essentially a permission slip to work. Unlike 45 other states, Illinois offers only one pathway to licensure for each...

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Settlement deal helps prevent parents’ nightmares from coming true

State drops child-neglect citation for mother who let her kids play outside

4 reforms to prevent abuse of discretion in child-welfare system

Illinois can’t afford DCFS appropriation

Pathway to a Profession: How Apprenticeships Could Reshape Illinois’ Beauty Service Industry

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Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

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