BUDGET 2026 “will try to respond to the pressures households and businesses face” – but at a more normal level than the ...

Kinnear-Rausch will be leading a team of social workers who frequently appeared en masse before the Board of Supervisors to voice their complaints about the agency’s leadership and failure to take ...

Despite reforms, Native kids remain overrepresented in Washington state. Tribal systems offer hope but need more support and ...

The report also calls on ACS to curtail school investigations, refrain from conducting home searches at night unless there’s ...

North Carolina’s PATH NC platform will have features including AI-assisted tools. It will also digitally connect the state’s ...

After woeful federal and state assessments of problems with social services in NC, child welfare reforms may put teeth into ...

Eleanor Chavez and Gerald Ortiz y Pino are correct in their piece (“N.M. must change direction to stop child abuse,” My View, May 10) diagnosing structural problems in the Children, ...

Many people and charities have been calling on the Child Benefit payment to be increased and extended in the upcoming budget, ...

It's been some six months since an outside arbitrator stepped in to require more accountability from the state Children, Youth and Families Department in its protection of abused and neglected ...

“A budget is a moral document,” as numerous human rights activists have said over the decades. If that is true, then the ...

Permanently expanded the tax credit for working parents — known as the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) for the ...

A child’s alleged rape by a group home worker sparks scrutiny of Massachusetts welfare system By Jason Laughlin and Scooty Nickerson Globe Staff,Updated June 30, 2025, 9:56 a.m.