Perspective of a Juvenile Court Judge Judge
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The juvenile court judge occupies a unique position. Like all other judges, the juvenile court judge must apply the law to resolve a dispute. For juvenile court judges handling abuse and neglect cases, however, the law requires a new type of role. The judge must monitor whether child welfare agencies have provided services to individual children and families sufficient to comply with federal and state requirements that reasonable efforts be made to keep the family together. This means that the juvenile court judge must know what services are available in the community to support the family and how well child welfare agencies are performing in individual cases and generally.
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