State lawmakers received their quarterly child welfare update on Thursday.

A discussion of whether New York’s sealing of unfounded ACS reports unfairly restricts access to information that may be ...

The lawsuit faults the school for what it describes as a practice of investigating abuse suspicions internally, rather than reporting suspicions to outside authorities as required by Colorado’s ...

Brown, who serves as an in-home social worker in the Child Protective Services unit of Dare County Social Services, has been named Dare County’s December Employee of the Month.

In at least one way, Georgia’s child welfare agency has treated its chief administrator just like any other parent involved ...

Some Minnesota families are in danger of losing child care after the US Department of Health and Human Services announced a freeze on child care payments to the state Tuesday amid a federal ...

Gov. Glenn Youngkin has launched Safe Kids Strong Families, a package of reforms meant to improve the child welfare system in ...

Across the United States, state laws designate licensed mental health professionals (MHPs) as mandated reporters when they have reasonable suspicion of child abuse or neglect (Ettinger, 2022). This ...

This article compares Child Protection Services (CPS) investigators to umpires, emphasizing that they should focus solely on facts and law, not emotions or biases. Investigators must avoid ...

Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering changing the legal definitions of child abuse and neglect to avoid prosecuting people who allow children in their care to engage in certain activities ...

HARRISBURG — To protect kids, Pennsylvania maintains a registry of people convicted and suspected of child abuse and neglect. The registry is used for background checks across the commonwealth, and in ...

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