Before reporting families to the child welfare system, educators should ask how to support their needs better.

The most challenging cases involved stories of child abuse, neglect and the parents who are supposed to protect these vulnerable children. I dealt with too many such cases.

Every year, child protective services agencies across the nation investigate the family lives of roughly 3.5 million children, or about 1 out of every 20 American kids.

Child Protective Services investigators would get way more training if new state bill passes ... but I’ve seen cases where the child was taken away because the house was not clean.

The lawsuit states that, in two of the cases, county child-protective workers sought “unconstitutional” gag orders from a judge that barred caretakers from protesting the removal of children.

Last year, Nassau CPS caseworkers averaged 12.9 cases, the highest annual average in at least six years. Blakeman in 2023 approved a 17% increase in starting salary for caseworkers, from $44,000 ...

A CBS News Philadelphia investigation found protective measures were in place to keep 12-year-old Malinda Hoagland away from Cindy Warren before the child's death in May 2024.

In New York State, the number of fatalities from child maltreatment went from 69 in 2019 to 105 in 2020. There were 51,000 reports of child maltreatment concerning more than 66,000 children. Just ...

After nearly a year of intense public scrutiny following the deaths of three Tucson children, Child Protective Services faces the prospect of legislative changes and possible funding cuts.

MORE than 2,000 cases of suspected child abuse and neglect were reported in The Bahamas over a five-year period, with social services officials warning that too many cases continue to go ...

For the last six months, the investigations team of Buncombe County’s Child Protective Services division has been so short-staffed that the workload has become “almost impossible” to keep up ...