April 9, 2015
Not so long ago, if foster children in Florida wanted to spend the night at a friend's house, the parents hosting the sleepover faced a criminal background check. Taking the kids on an out-of-state vacation required official permission from a state agency.
February 4, 2015
ALBANY, N.Y. - Data show one-quarter of New York youths aging out of foster care will be homeless within four years and half will be unemployed at age 24.
January 10, 2014
AUSTIN, Texas -
Texas has not publicly reported hundreds of abuse- and neglect-related child deaths since 2010, raising questions about the accuracy of the state's official fatality count, an Austin American-Statesman investigation into the state's child protection system has found.
July 11, 2014
BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Police Department homicide unit has taken over an investigation of the death of a 10-year-old boy at a home for medically fragile children because of the possibility that abuse he suffered five years ago played a role in his death.
June 7, 2014
INDIANAPOLIS — A new report by state child-welfare officials says 34 Indiana children died from abuse or neglect in the 2012 fiscal year.
May 30, 2014
PHOENIX — Less than a year after revelations that thousands of child abuse and neglect reports in Arizona had gone uninvestigated, the state has overhauled its child welfare agency and funded it with tens of millions more than in the past.
April 18, 2014
Colorado has created a website that provides the public with child-protection and child-abuse information for each county, the latest in a series of reforms that follow a number of child deaths in the state.