Long-awaited insight into why foster care spending has soared in Georgia was revealed in an audit presented to public officials on Thursday.

The feds awarded $2.2 million in grants to make foster home licensing more efficient, especially by speeding up fingerprinting for background checks.

Lawmakers have paved the way for New York to become one of only two states in the country that requires people reporting child abuse and neglect to identify themselves. If signed into law by Gov.

Kim Dvorchak is leaving the National Association of Counsel for Children, the country’s leading trade group for children’s ...

Federal officials executed a search warrant at the Red Lake Nation’s family services building Thursday, but there are no ...

The Red Lake Nation welcome sign on State Hwy. 1 on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota. Photo by Lorie Shaull, CC License 2.0. In a still publicly unexplained move, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has ...

Katherine Lucero is stepping down from her post as California's top youth justice official to return to the Superior Court.

Superior Court Judge Amanda Health is the newly elected president of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges ...

A new survey of of more than 400 young people provides insight into the results of the government's investment in extended ...

Human Services oversees the Division of Family and Children Services, or DFCS, which is a social services agency under ...

With the recent surge in people removed from SNAP rolls, fewer families automatically qualify for the state's "SUN Bucks" aid ...