A new study from the Children's Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law presents finds that the United States federal government is not adequately enforcing child welfare laws and standards and that individual states are not adequately complying with these laws, says the article. According to the article, the study found that the government’s oversight and monitoring of youth in foster care is both insufficient and infrequent. The article highlights one local example, featured in the study, of foster care children in San Diego, California who don’t get placed into foster care homes quickly enough. These children, says the article, end up staying in juvenile detention centers or group homes instead of in family-based care.
