As many as 40 employees of the Indiana Department of Child Services could lose their jobs under a reorganization eliminating three layers of management, which agency leaders said would improve ...

A 17-year-old Honduran boy was removed from a Pensacola foster home on Monday after Florida’s child protection agency alerted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE agents above are shown in a ...

SCRANTON — Lackawanna County announced Monday the long-sought restoration of its child protection agency’s full operating license, a major achievement that follows considerable efforts to bolster ...

“We’re Not Protecting Children. We’re Recycling Their Trauma.” That was the title of a recent opinion piece by policy researcher Mathangi Swaminathan on the education news website The74, explaining ...

[In state’s child protection statute and/or where “abuse and neglect” and/or “best interests of the child” are defined, add] A parent has the fundamental right to direct the care and upbringing of the ...

“It’s incumbent upon us to make sure these children are safe,” Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said at a press conference recently. “That’s job No. 1.” Blakeman launched a program in 2023 to ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Bobbi Johnson, left, then-acting director of the Office of Children and ...

The National Child Protection Task Force headed the effort, which located kids from ages 7 to 17 in Florida Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 ...

The Indiana Department of Child Services investigates nearly four out of five Black families for child maltreatment. (Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle) As many as 40 employees of the Indiana ...