For Connecticut attorney Michael H. Agranoff, working in the area of child protective services simply came naturally to him, he said. The Ellington resident would not ever tolerate child abuse, he ...

Michelle Newcomb does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

In 2024, advocates from the state’s two most populous counties, Hennepin and Ramsey, pushed legislators to pass a law that ...

In 2014, Gov. Mark Dayton and the Minnesota Legislature began passing a series of legislative reforms meant to improve the state’s response to reports of child abuse and neglect. For more than three ...

Officials on Long Island said they're making changes to child protective services in response to the 2020 death of an 8-year-old boy whose police officer father forced him to sleep overnight on the ...

The state agency that oversees child protection in Minnesota has named a new top official to run that division, following a series of highly publicized breakdowns in the system for protecting children ...

Aron Shlonsky receives funding from a number of government contracts and council grants, but does not benefit financially or personally from any programs or services described in this article. The ...

In a small, makeshift room in a refugee camp in Erbil, home to more than 8,500 refugees, 12-year-old Dîlan* sits quietly, lost in thought. He often keeps to himself, still carrying the pain of being ...

Jacob Weidner spent the first 12 days of his life on a ventilator in the neonatal intensive-care unit at OSF HealthCare Children’s Hospital of Illinois in Peoria. He was diagnosed with meningitis.

A North Carolina advocacy group is using high-pressure tactics to push Durham County officials to return children taken away from families by child protection services. County officials say the ...

Children's services in Rotherham have been rated as "outstanding" for the first time since the council regained control of the department in the wake of a child sex abuse scandal.