Do confidentiality rules protect children and their families, or shield government agencies from public scrutiny?
One of the largest child labor cases in U.S. history was settled last year, when Packers Sanitation Services of Kieler, Wis., paid $1.5 million in penalties after a Department of Labor ...
Welfare reform allowed states to choose how they provide assistance to the poor — or hardly provide it at all. In the rapidly changing Southwest, that has sometimes led to bizarre or impossible ...
Speaking during his weekly administration briefing Tuesday from the State Capitol Building, Justice confirmed that Child Protective Service (CPS) workers within the state Department of Human ...
NSW is facing a chronic shortage of caseworkers, including child protection workers, leaving vulnerable kids and women facing ...
The Justice Department is poised to indict long-serving Representative Henry Cuellar, a Democrat from Texas, on Friday, ...
L.D. 779, introduced by Sen. Jeff Timberlake, R-Turner, would have established a Department of Child and Family Services separate from DHHS to oversee child welfare, children's behavioral health ...
Washington — The Justice Department and more than 100 victims of former USA Gymnastics physician Larry Nassar reached a civil settlement over allegations that FBI agents failed to properly ...
A campaigning former subpostmaster told Surrey Police he suspected a ‘possible criminal offence’ when he found details of a Post Office prosecutor withholding evidence in a 2010 trial.
U.S. gymnasts, from left, Aly Raisman, Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney and Maggie Nichols testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2021. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) The ...
Thousands of Massachusetts parents face scrutiny from the state’s child protection system and, with it, the all-consuming fear of losing custody of a child. For many of these families, poverty ...
Apr. 23—A proposal to create a standalone department to oversee child welfare in Maine died in the Legislature after the House of Representatives failed to hold a vote — even though the bill had ...