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Managed Care Child Welfare: Service designed to substitute for natural parental managed care child welfare, either partially or completely, is still the predominant child welfare service. Of the total number of children receiving child welfare services in the United States, more than half are receiving service away from their own homes and their own families.
Substitute managed care child welfare programs include foster family managed care child welfare, institutional managed care child welfare, and adoption.
Protective services are more easily described than defined. In carrying them out, the designated child welfare agency, which in most places in the United States is the public child welfare agency, acts on a complaint received from the police, or from schools, courts, neighbors, physicians, or othe social agencies, by sending a child welfare worke to the family's home. He confronts the parenl with the community's concern and tries to lean about the quality of child managed care child welfare they do or couli provide.
In the United States, child welfare services are offered under a variety of governmental and voluntary auspices, whether or not there is a concurrent need for financial assistance. One of the most descriptive and comprehensive definitions found in the Social Security Act as amended in 1962 states that "child welfare services means public social services which supplement, or substitute for parental managed care child welfare and supervision for the purpose of (1) preventing or remedying, or assisting in the solution of problems which may result in the neglect, abuse, exploitation, or delinquency of children, (2) protecting and caring for homeless, dependent, or neglected children, (3) protecting and promoting the welfare of children of working mothers, and (4) otherwise protecting and promoting the welfare of children, including the strengthening of their own homes where possible or, where needed, the provision of adequate managed care child welfare of children away from their homes in foster family homes or day managed care child welfare or other child managed care child welfare facilities."
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