Child Protective Services staff in Caroline County is under investigation by its parent agency after staff failed to respond ...

Questions still linger in the investigation into Hershall Creachbaum’s death, leading lawmakers to potentially edit a ...

Ke’Torrius Starks Jr., who had been living in temporary foster care, was left in the Department of Human Resources worker’s car in Birmingham, Alabama for five hours on Tuesday as ...

New mothers say they had to undergo devastating investigations after hospitals reported their false positive drug tests to child welfare agencies shortly after they gave birth. “It was torture; it was ...

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.

A three-year-old boy was left inside a vehicle while in the care of a contractor for the Alabama Department of Human Resources, police said.

During the past year, 12 children who had been the subject of reports of abuse or neglect to the state’s child protective services died, according to a report released Wednesday.

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Margaret Sieger of the University of Kansas Medical Center about her recent paper that ...

When someone calls the Fairfax County Child Protective Services’ hotline for reporting abuse or neglect, a social worker is on hand to screen the report and determine whether or not it’s valid.

Amanda Neal, a child protective services investigator in Michigan, has noticed calls slow down during the coronavirus pandemic. She doesn’t take it as a good sign.

Because child protective services law, policy and practice are complex, supervisors play key roles regarding the way in which the department responds. This content has been archived.