Foster care review ordered after teacher charged with murder of child
Summary
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker ordered an independent review of the city’s foster care system after 10-year-old Malayshia Alford was found dead. The review committee will recommend ways to strengthen child protections and is expected to deliver its findings within 120 days.Key Facts
- Parker signed an executive order creating a Child Welfare Review Committee.
- The committee may include up to 15 child welfare and foster care experts appointed by the mayor.
- The review will examine foster home selection and placement, licensing, oversight, and visitation requirements.
- The committee will advise the mayor and disband after she accepts its final report.
- Alford’s foster parent, 36-year-old Carprice Williams, has been charged with murder.
- Police found Alford in a vehicle in New Jersey after a dayslong search; officials said her cause of death was blunt force trauma.
- Williams worked for the Philadelphia School District from 2017 to 2023 and returned in 2025, the district said.
- Philadelphia’s Act 33 team will also conduct a separate review, as required after a child abuse fatality.
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