Children and young adults in the U.S. foster care system suffer from mental health disorders and die by suicide at far higher rates than the general population, yet the system doesn’t uniformly screen ...

With cuts to some child welfare programs, California's new budget provided an emergency bailout to private foster family agencies.

Cuyahoga County and child welfare advocates praised Gov. Mike DeWine this week for restoring funding for housing solutions for youth in the child protection system, but other language lurking in ...

DHS launches child welfare initiative to locate at-risk migrant children placed with unvetted sponsors, uncovering cases of abuse, exploitation, and labor trafficking.

California’s politicians want you to believe they’re trying to rein in sky-high gas prices. They’re not. What’s really happening is years of restrictive policies and overregulation are ...

The alliance’s president and CEO said in a statement that without the changes it had requested private foster agencies in California were “uninsurable.” The alliance’s decision has thrown California’s ...

An audit shows that Louisiana's child welfare staffing needs remain high despite years of criticism of the agency over employee shortages.

Concern over rising gas prices and fleeing gas refineries has California lawmakers wondering if the state's gas crisis is getting worse because of them.

West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey pledged on Wednesday to improve transparency, accountability and outcomes in the state's childcare welfare system."I think ...

A half century ago today, child welfare reform began when the Daily News stunned the city with the first installment of a six-part series about the system by reporters William Heffernan and Stewart… ...

California kids were taken from their parents for their own safety. Then county social workers abused them, they say. San Diego County is confronting hundreds of lawsuits filed by now-grown ...

The law set off a wave of child sex abuse litigation that has pushed some public institutions to the brink of financial crisis. School districts face up to $3 billion in claims.