OTTAWA — The Assembly of First Nations says children and their families who lived under Canada's First Nations child welfare ...

A referral was made to social services in the weeks before the death of a five-week-old girl, it is understood. Emergency services were called to a property in Oldham yesterday, Sunday, February 9, to ...

A bill aimed at addressing how long abused and neglected children spend in our state’s child welfare system has passed out of committee.

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

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

Tackling welfare fraud means cutting through an often-complicated web of extravagant lies. Here in McLeod County, that work is done by financial aid eligibility staff who try to make sure those ...

Child welfare bills sail through General Assembly on unanimous votes as legislator concern for vulnerable youth crosses party lines ...

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 ...

Chronic understaffing, and the excessive workload and burnout that comes with it, has the people in charge of protecting British Columbia's most vulnerable children in a state of crisis, the ...

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

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

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed a new bill this week that gives the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) more flexibility in certifying grandparents and other relatives as safe ...