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

A new state law banning anonymous reports of child abuse has been hailed by family law attorneys and child welfare advocates ...

WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) this week released the 2023 Annual Child Protective Services Report, which provides statewide and county-level data on the efforts to ...

A child is brought to the emergency room with an injury. Was it caused by abuse? When investigated by the police, hospital staff, and child protective services (CPS), each entity may view the same ...

Parenting expectations are often unreasonably high—and so is the number of people who believe that kids can't handle anything on their own. Passersby too often see an unsupervised child and assume ...

“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 ...

Michigan's Child Protective Services is still not doing enough to protect possibly abused or neglected children, such as not doing face-to-face assessments of a suspected abuse or neglect victim ...

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 ...

Officials on Long Island said they're making changes to child protective services in response to the 2020 death of an 8-year-old boy whose police officer father forced him to sleep overnight on the ...

There were 24 confirmed child abuse cases reported to Wayne County Children & Youth (C&Y) Services in 2022, out of 131 reports of suspected incidents made to the agency. On April 11, this statistic ...