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

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

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

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

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

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.

The Maryland Court of Appeals ruled in favor of McClanahan on Dec. 22, 2015, saying that the Department of Social Services can’t penalize a parent who reports suspected child abuse in good faith.

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 ...

When Schools Use Child Protective Services As A Weapon Against Parents by Rebecca Klein and Caroline Preston, The Hechinger Report | February 8, 2019 CHICAGO and NEW YORK — Tiffany Banks sat in her ...

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 ...

Commentary Suing Child Protective Services When a Child Starves to Death If at some point a lawsuit is brought against the department of human services/CPS in connection with that death ...