Department of Human Resources employee Kela Stanford, 54, was charged last Friday over Ke’Torrius Starks Jr.’s tragic July 22 ...

Family members and residents say alleged abuse by the girl's father was reported to the county’s Child Protective Services ...

The April report showed CPS is underfunded, understaffed and has a high turnover rate. These factors, the report says, ...

Parenting expectations are often unreasonably high—and so is the number of people who believe that kids can't handle anything ...

Ray Mata Jr. and Graciela Bustamonte have been charged with first-degree murder, willful cruelty to a child, and torture ...

Family and community members gathered outside Kern County Human Services early Friday morning, demanding an investigation ...

An online petition is calling for an independent investigation of the Kern County Department of Child Protective Services, alleging a pattern of failure. “Too many cases have emerged from Kern County, ...

When investigated by the police, hospital staff, and child protective services (CPS), each entity may view the same events differently, but the sole and final decisionmaker is CPS.

Key Texas lawmakers want to make it harder for Child Protective Services to remove youngsters from their birth families, streamline CPS’s parent agency and double down on foster-care ...

The bill, L.D. 1834, is one of several being considered by lawmakers this spring in response to a record-breaking number of child deaths in 2021. Last year, 30 Maine children were killed or died ...