A stuffed toy with a checklist of items to be packed into a bag to help a foster child settle into their foster home. (Ben Hasty / MediaNews Group / Reading Eagle via Getty Images) By signing up, you ...

In June 2017, at a family picnic in a park in Aurora, Colorado, Vanessa Peoples noticed that one of her young sons had slipped away. Peoples, who was studying to be a nurse, is not the first parent to ...

Gov. Tim Walz will propose extra funding to hire more child protection workers and state lawmakers will meet Dec. 4 to begin discussing potential reforms in the wake of a Star Tribune investigation ...

Estonia's child protection workers are overwhelmed and the state aims to ease the burden by cutting bureaucracy and making ...

Before I retired as an attorney, I had been professionally involved in all sides of the child protection system: represented children and parents, ran a child protection agency, and advocated for ...

Hundreds of parents whose children were removed from them by county authorities are demanding changes to Minnesota's child welfare laws, arguing that they are unconstitutionally broad and tear ...

Jessica Pryce stood on the small stage atop a red, circular carpet that gave the impression of an oversized pin cushion, with the familiar three letters “TED” posed behind her. Speaking in a neutral ...

Two in five social workers say families are drawn into “intrusive enquiries”, as DfE data reveals number of child protection ...

Colorado’s child-welfare systems are broken, according to the National Coalition for Child Protection and Reform and the MJCF Coalition. The problem is twofold, the groups claim: According to a report ...

New Jersey’s child welfare system — once considered to be among the most dysfunctional and mismanaged in the nation — has been “extensively repaired” over the last 19 years and should be ready to ...