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June 28, 2021
The sweeping Health and Human Services budget bill finalized by legislative leaders last week includes two significant child protection and foster care reform measures, which advocates say will help more families stay together and mitigate racial disparities in the state's child welfare systems.
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The bill requires courts to appoint a lawyer in all child protection cases for parents who can't afford one. It's a big change from current law, which gives courts discretion to appoint an attorney "in any case in which it feels that such an appointment is appropriate."