To capitalise on this, governments need sound policies to facilitate student returns and foster integration at home.
He returned to foster care in 2009.
She said the children were afraid they would be returned to foster care.
Before and after their return from foster care, city agency officials said, the parents were cooperative.
The boy was found safe and returned to foster care after a three-day manhunt.
The child welfare agency went to court this week asking that seven children, including the 14-year-old girl and her brother, be returned to foster care.
But the evaluation found that the agencies at the bottom typically performed poorly on things like teaching adolescents the skills to live independently and ensuring that children did not have to return to foster care after being reunited with their families, child welfare officials said.
He placated her briefly, but was so worried when his father collapsed with ill-health that he ruined a social services meeting to decide whether her son may be returned from foster care.
Heath's assignment all day was to place Connie Dixon, a homeless 19-year-old single mother who was returning to foster care under California's new law extending benefits to age 21. "I've tried everything.
