For far too long, Child Protective Services has languished as a fetid morass, often endangering our most vulnerable kids. Readers know the stories. Hundreds of kids sleeping in CPS offices. Botched ...

Human Services has been grappling with an $85.7 million budget shortfall in its child placement program that prompted the commissioner to cancel or suspend millions of dollars in contracted services ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Connecticut attorney Michael H. Agranoff, working in the area of child protective services simply came naturally to him, he ...

This article compares Child Protection Services (CPS) investigators to umpires, emphasizing that they should focus solely on facts and law, not emotions or biases. Investigators must avoid ...

SAN ANTONIO — Did you know that everyone is required to report child abuse, even if you don't work with children? It's a Class A misdemeanor if you don't. “Everybody in Texas is a mandatory reporter.

Scattered clothes, alcoholic beverage containers, drug paraphernalia and children’s toys covered the floor and furniture in the darkened living room as child protective services workers walked inside.

“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 ...

The assumption that parents of young children need only be offered services and support in order to keep their children safe has resulted in other misguided policies.

A view of the Pennsylvania state Capitol building from State Street in Harrisburg. (Tim Lambert/Pennsylvania Capital-Star). State lawmakers are considering changing the legal definitions of child ...

New statewide data from the West Virginia Child Advocacy Network show a growing need for child protection services across the state. Nearly 46% of referrals involved allegations of sexual abuse, and ...