President Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 170 undocumented parents or caretakers in the last 5 months ...

Herefordshire council has apologised for failing children in two separate cases through its “woeful” children’s services after a High Court ...

A disturbing video shows a group of police officers trying to pull a 1-year-old child from the arms of his mother, who is lying on the floor...

A federal judge Friday suspended an independent inquiry at a troubled Chicago psychiatric hospital that is set to lose its federal funding. ...

While recreational marijuana is now legal in Michigan, many legal questions still surround it, like how its use will be viewed by Child Prot...

A social worker has been thrown out of the profession after he failed to protect a child More >>  Aberdeen social worker thrown out ...

With more than 200,000 people in Texas jails and prisons, and nearly half a million children in Texas who have experienced a parent getting ...

A lawsuit filed last week alleges that the Worcester School Committee and the city's superintendent, as well as the state Department of ...

The top child welfare official in Kansas says bringing in additional contractors under a new series of grants will cost more but will help p...

Cruelty has no boundaries, no depth, no shape. When it is practiced by someone who doesn’t care about the consequences of their actions, c...

Ever since a Chinese scientist rocked the world by claiming he had created gene-edited twin girls, international outrage has only intensifie...

Nearly every adult working with children in the U.S. — from nannies to teachers to coaches — has undergone state screenings to ensure they h...

A lawsuit is claiming the New York Police Department forced a woman to give birth while shackled in handcuffs. In a lawsuit filed Thursday...

Grandparents’ objections to an order terminating a father’s parental rights and an adoption order came too late, and their motion for permis...

The fatal shooting of a 45-year-old female social worker has left her family, friends and the townspeople shocked and baffled. In an incid...

Nevayah still remembers the feel of the handcuffs. They were foreign to her; she had never been in trouble. A latecomer to New York City’s...

A baby believed to be in danger after being abducted by his troubled biological parents has been located and is safe, officials said Friday....

After a daycare worker in McKinney was charged by police for injuring three children, one family told WFAA that it reported that same worker...

Nevayah still remembers the feel of the handcuffs. They were foreign to her; she had never been in trouble. A latecomer to New York City’s...

Social workers across Georgia can sometimes face hostile, threatening and dangerous incidents and behavior when working in the field. On M...

A social worker has been thrown out of the profession after he failed to protect a child who was “being allowed to visit a crack den with th...

A new report from an ongoing public inquiry into decades of abuse at a Halifax-area orphanage says a fragmented system of care wasn't eq...

A Coquitlam man has found a half-sister he didn’t even know he had — and it’s all thanks to social media. Six months after Rychelle Clairm...

The Trump administration separated 81 migrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border since the June executive order that sto...