Seven former foster youth are suing a former pediatrician for sex abuse and a California county for covering it up.

Georgia lawmakers have struck a bipartisan deal to fill the state child welfare agency’s budget hole, following months of scrutiny and a looming deficit that compromised critical social services. Last ...

Los Angeles County may be on the verge of settling a lawsuit brought by the family of Gabriel Fernandez, the 8-year-old Palmdale boy who was beat to death by his mother and her boyfriend in 2013.

The Minnesota Foster Youth Bill of Rights would include the right to “appropriate travel bags.” Final votes will be cast this ...

A legal team that previously challenged the Indian Child Welfare Act is bringing the issue before the U.S. Supreme Court once ...

The CalFresh bill attempts to remedy the new hurdles that have emerged. It is sponsored by the California State Council of ...

A lawsuit against Washington state's child welfare department alleges the agency flouts its duty to protect the best interest ...

Closing some of California's county-run youth incarceration facilities is the only way to eliminate the excess capacity and ...

Judge Raquel Montoya-Lewis is the first Native American justice to serve on the Washington Supreme Court. Photo courtesy of the Office of Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. Citing the devastating history of ...

Candice Broce, director of Georgia’s Division of Family and Children Services, answers lawmakers’ questions during a hearing on Jan. 23 about her agency’s budget deficit. Photo by Jordan Anderson for ...

Reports of child abuse and neglect, system responses to those reports, and confirmed child victims have all declined since the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data released last week ...