The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "child abuse" ...
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Overcoming the Confidentiality Barrier
Lanosga suggests how to get access to information on child abuse in fatal and near-fatal cases. Also listed are the 20 states with laws requiring at least some access to case files, as well as ways to get around barriers if you live in states that don't. And don't quit even after doing a story or two. "Keep beating the drum."
Tags: public records; child endangerment; FOI; Administration for Children and Families; Department of Health and Human Services
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Covering and uncovering child neglect stories
Frazier's tips on covering child neglect stories include understanding the state statutes and juvenile code, familiarizing yourself with juvenile courts, exhibiting caution with complaints from families, reviewing child fatality records, using national statistics carefully, and checking federal reviews of your state's child welfare system.
Tags: children; child abuse; juvenile court; NCANDS; Adoption and Safe Families Act; ASFA reviews
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Investigating child abuse and neglect
McGuire's tips for investigating child abuse include learning your state's open records laws, learning how the system is supposed to work, analyzing statistics, interviewing experts, and reviewing police reports and court records. The tipsheet notes sources for obtaining relevant data.
Tags: children; child abuse; neglect; National Data Analysis System; National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information; Adoption and Foster Care Analysis Reporting System
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Investigating death in day care and abuse and neglect
Wilson offers this step by step guide to the News & Observer project "Case Closed: Death in Day Care."
Tags: children; child abuse; neglect; day care; Division of Child Development
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Covering Missing Foster Children
O'Matz provides an excellent resource on covering foster children in this tipsheet. She covers everything from law enforcement to state services to nonprofit organizations. Also included are a list of specific resources both physical and on the web to help cover missing foster children.
Tags: child abuse; child protection services; molestation; sex abuse; neglect; government; nonprofits; missing children; foster children; foster care; police; law enforcement
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Children's Issues: Data and Expert Contacts
Method provides resources on children issues in this valuable tipsheet. Included in the hand out is how the Asbury Park Press used the Adoption and Foster Care Reporting System to cover the Division of Youth and Family Services in New Jersey.
Tags: child abuse; children; Youth and Family Services; sex abuse; foster care; missing children; adoption; child neglect; neglect
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Tips for Child Care Investigation
This tipsheet outlines how to make contacts, interact with your sources, file legal procedures, and organize information while investigating child care.
Tags: Child care; child abuse
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Exploitation of Workers
A presentation of an investigation on child slavery in the Ivory Coast and its links with the US Cocoa Industry. Tips on how to follow on such a story and a list of internet resources concerning exploitation of workers.
Tags: cocoa; labor; slavery; Ivory Coast
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"Cries of Anguish"
In this follow-up report to the Hartford Courant's 1998 "Deadly Restraint" investigative series that exposed patient abuse in psychiatric facilities, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill chronicles a continuing pattern of abuse and restraint, largely of child patients under five years old. Abuse was often repeated, and mutliple cases resulted in death. The tipsheet comes with a chart listing incidences of abuse across the country occuring after the Courant report.
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Tipsheet No: 730
This handout covers how to investigate charges of child abuse. The handout includes tips on sources and a list of child abuse experts and resources. The file also contains a Seattle Times article on children dying while under Washington's child-protection program. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org.