child welfare services

A new podcast by NBC News investigative reporter Mike Hixenbaugh and Wondery, “Do No Harm,” takes a hard look at the child welfare system. Hixenbaugh joined LX News to discuss his investigation into a medical and legal system so intent on protecting children from abuse that it can sometimes harm families rather than helping.

With schools closed and teachers unable to report suspected cases of abuse, child welfare agencies have lost some of their best eyes and ears as the coronavirus pandemic strains families

Child welfare agencies across the United States are scrambling to confront new challenges arising because of the coronavirus outbreak

The justices will hear on Tuesday the cases of three LGBT workers who were fired, including Gerald Bostock, a child welfare services employee for the Clayton County, Georgia juvenile court system. The other two individuals are Donald Zarda, a gay man who was fired from his job as a skydiving instructor after remarking on his sexual orientation to a female...

The February executive order is expected to go into effect next month.

Detaining migrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the U.S. that now reaps $1 billion annually — a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds....
Currently, more than 11,800 children, from a few months old to 17, are housed in nearly 90 facilities in 15 states — Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan,...

Two immigrant fathers who were separated from their young sons for almost two months following the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy have been reunited with their children in New York City.

Most new laws approved during Florida’s recent legislative session take effect Sunday with the start of the state’s fiscal year. The new statutes have an effect on Floridians of all ages, from bullying in schools to providing further protections against seniors. Read some highlights of these 105 new laws:

Speaker Paul Ryan is pushing ahead with votes on rival House GOP immigration bills, but neither appears to have enough support for passage, prompting President Donald Trump to take executive action Wednesday to stem the crisis of family separations at the border. Trump has said he’s “1,000 percent” behind both GOP bills, but restive House Republicans have all but begged...

Bowing to pressure from anxious allies, President Donald Trump abruptly reversed himself Wednesday and signed an executive order halting his administration’s policy of separating children from their parents when they are detained illegally crossing the U.S. border. It was a dramatic turnaround for Trump, who has been insisting, wrongly, that his administration had no choice but to separate families apprehended...

Children are being separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. This is what happens once they’re separated.

Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned. Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis. The government also plans...

The grandmother of 10 children who were rescued from what some are calling a “house of horrors” in Fairfield, California claims her grandkids “lived in torture” and accused their father of worshipping Satan.

Ten children have been removed from “horrible living conditions” in a home in Fairfield, California, police said, and both of their parents are facing charges of child abuse and neglect.

The fast-growing abuse of prescription drugs among women has reached into the maternity wards in the Sunshine State with the number of babies born addicted to opiates on the rise every year in the past decade from 338 in 2005 up to 2,487 in 2015, according to hospital discharge data provided by the Agency for Health Care Administration.