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

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

The girl was taken to a foster home in Shawnee three days after hotline worker picked her up from mother in Midwest City, ...

Devdutta Sangvai, former president of Duke Regional Hospital, was tapped by Gov. Josh Stein to lead the department as North ...

First Nations children and their families who lived under Canada's First Nations child welfare system between 1991 and 2022 ...

Indigenous leaders are calling it historic and a long time coming. First Nations children and families affected by the ...

First Nations children and their families who lived under Canada's First Nations child welfare system between 1991 and 2022 will be able to apply for compensation under a class-action settlement ...

The Assembly of First Nations says the compensation claims process for the First Nation child welfare case opens March 10.

A lawsuit, filed by the ACLU of Vermont, alleges that the state tracked a pregnant woman and kept a registry of many pregnant ...

Two professors at the University of Iowa are developing a new camera system that uses AI to detect child abuse as it’s ...

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 ...

A teenaged girl should not have been repeatedly sexually abused for months in two separate states if church leaders had ...