State lawmakers received their quarterly child welfare update on Thursday.

A discussion of whether New York’s sealing of unfounded ACS reports unfairly restricts access to information that may be ...

The lawsuit faults the school for what it describes as a practice of investigating abuse suspicions internally, rather than reporting suspicions to outside authorities as required by Colorado’s ...

Brown, who serves as an in-home social worker in the Child Protective Services unit of Dare County Social Services, has been named Dare County’s December Employee of the Month.

The Trump administration is slashing $10 billion in funds for social services and child care in five Democratic-led states, a Health and Human Services official confirmed to CNN, with the agency ...

In at least one way, Georgia’s child welfare agency has treated its chief administrator just like any other parent involved ...

Gov. Glenn Youngkin has launched Safe Kids Strong Families, a package of reforms meant to improve the child welfare system in ...

Across the United States, state laws designate licensed mental health professionals (MHPs) as mandated reporters when they have reasonable suspicion of child abuse or neglect (Ettinger, 2022). This ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Immigration authorities in Colombia have taken 17 children into protective custody after they were rescued from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect whose members have been accused of ...

Photo courtesy of WV Legislative Photography Cynthia Persily, then the West Virginia Secretary for the Department of Human Services, talks to members of the West Virginia Legislature during an August ...

(WXYZ) — When a child is the victim of abuse or neglect in Michigan, case workers with Children’s Protective Services are the first and sometimes only line of ...

CLERMONT COUNTY, Ohio — Clermont County Children’s Services is currently relying on funding from a renewed 2006 0.8 mill levy to pay for placement when a child is removed from their home. “Last year ...