A bill in the Utah Legislature would define and specify crimes committed against child welfare workers and their family ...

New York City child welfare agencies routinely investigate parents who report being abused, but a state appellate court ruled ...

Devdutta Sangvai, former president of Duke Regional Hospital, was tapped by Gov. Josh Stein to lead the department as North ...

The girl was taken to a foster home in Shawnee three days after hotline worker picked her up from mother in Midwest City, ...

Testimony over a proposal to redefine “neglect” for the child welfare system showed a divide between social workers and law enforcement. Legislation in the House seeks to prevent the removal of ...

Report says that a multitude of people, ranging from child protection workers to family support workers and specialists, are ...

The state of New Mexico was served with a class action lawsuit in 2018 by 14 foster children and two advocacy organizations ...

Chronic understaffing, and the excessive workload and burnout that comes with it, has the people in charge of protecting ...

This system will introduce proactive child welfare services, training programmes for social workers, and legislative reforms ...

The state needs to hire more workers who can help families to ease poverty, give grassroots organizations more funding and ...

A disturbing wave of crimes against children across multiple states has sparked renewed concerns about child safety and ...