While making cuts to some child welfare programs, California's new budget provided an emergency bailout to private foster ...

It's been some six months since an outside arbitrator stepped in to require more accountability from the state Children, Youth and Families Department in its protection of abused and neglected ...

Senate leadership is trumpeting legislation ( SB 7012) just approved by Gov. Ron DeSantis that is expected to improve child ...

Kinnear-Rausch will be leading a team of social workers who frequently appeared en masse before the Board of Supervisors to ...

After woeful federal and state assessments of problems with social services in NC, child welfare reforms may put teeth into ...

Re: “Travis Decker search: WA lawmakers, advocates demand family court reforms” (June 13, Local News): When courts miss the mark, kids bear the ultimate cost, as did Paityn, Evelyn and ...

Titled the Fostering Care in NC Act, the law gives the state Department of Health and Human Services more power to hold ...