Editorial policy
How The Family Casebook is written and checked, what it will not publish, and how money and corrections are handled.
The Family Casebook publishes one kind of page: an entry that answers a single question about family social services. Everything on the site is written by the desk and checked against sources a reader can obtain.
Sources
An entry names the sources it read. In this field the useful ones are the programme descriptions published by the organisations that run a service, the statutes and administrative rules that license a service in a given state, and the published guidance of national organisations such as the ones that accredit agencies or train their staff.
Federal material is used where it governs, in particular the rules that attach to a federally funded programme and the reporting duties that come with a grant. Where two sources disagree, the entry says so and explains which one governs. Where no source settles the question, the entry says the point is unsettled.
Independence and money
No organisation named in an entry pays for its place, and no organisation is ranked. The site carries no account, no newsletter and no form that collects a name.
Where it describes what an agency does, the description comes from that agency's own published material or from the rule that governs it, and the entry says which.
Corrections
A correction is made in the entry itself. The sentence is rewritten, the checked-on date moves, and the change is described in the revision note when the change is substantive. The desk does not quietly delete a statement and leave the rest standing.