Maine’s embattled child welfare system has been making changes to improve staff support and retention, as well as resources ...

A settlement of a class action lawsuit set legal goals for the Kansas foster care system, but a new report says the state ...

Lawsuits have been filed against the state of North Carolina alleging that the state is failing children with disabilities ...

But Jean Marie Donnelly was troubled. The studio teacher and designated child welfare worker was there to work with a 10-year-old actor. The production, she said, invited two young local boys ...

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The third report from a neutral third party is showing continued progress in the state’s ...

"I'm staying strong, but it hurts." In a harrowing child welfare case that has sparked international interest, including that of celebrity icon and advocate for troubled teens Paris Hilton ...

A new report for the Office of Inspector General of Child Welfare is shedding light on numbers regarding child deaths, and ...

For those of us who work within the child welfare system, this is the worst-case scenario. The system exists so that every ...

The federal government and the class-action lawyers who worked on a historic settlement over First Nations child welfare have reached a $55-million deal over legal fees. The Federal Court approved ...

Lawmakers on the Children, Family, Health and Human Services Interim Committee put their support behind five pieces of draft ...

The justices heard more than three hours of arguments in a broad challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act, enacted in 1978 to address concerns that Native children were being separated from ...

Off These are some of the findings revealed by the Nuffield Foundation funded Child Welfare Inequalities project ... between poverty and child abuse and neglect. Where this is the case, social workers ...