New mothers say they had to undergo devastating investigations after hospitals reported their false positive drug tests to child welfare agencies shortly after they gave birth. “It was torture; it was ...

Last year, the Biden administration official in charge of child welfare compared agency field-workers to “overseers on plantations” and advised the public not to call child protective services ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Margaret Sieger of the University of Kansas Medical Center about her recent paper that ...

In her book “ Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services ― Notes of a Former Caseworker ” she looks back her CPS years and how they led her to quit and work for systemic change.

A three-year-old boy was left inside a vehicle while in the care of a contractor for the Alabama Department of Human Resources, police said.

RICHMOND, Va. -- A recent state investigation revealed that Child Protective Services (CPS) agencies are not always handling cases of child abuse or neglect appropriately and that the mistakes may ...

More often than not, child sex abuse victims wait years to report the crimes against them, if they report at all, and they ...

The Williams County commissioners Tuesday committed to guarantee funds for child protective services for the rest of the year, but not without much discussion.

House Health Chairwoman Amy Summers is asking how the public’s representatives can learn more about a state agency’s responses to sensitive child protective services cases. The question has ...

They are now in jail on felony child neglect charges. Media talked with neighbors who said they had called the state office of Child Protective Services (CPS) to complain, but nothing happened.