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All counties in Pennsylvania are required to use a risk and safety assessment tool to inform any removal decisions, county executive writes.
Op-ed: One of the primary goals of the Decision Aid Tool is to keep families together and reduce the number of children in out-of-home placement.
Soon, decisions on whether to investigate child abuse claims in Northampton County won’t be up to humans alone. The county is poised to join a small handful of municipalities across the nation using the burgeoning, and sometimes controversial, science of predictive analytics to decide which children are at risk.