The state agency responsible for keeping Illinois' most vulnerable children safe has failed to produce legally required public reports after examining what went wrong in hundreds of cases of child ...

The circumstances surrounding the death of 9-year-old Renesmay Eutsey in Fayette County have played out in similar fashion throughout Pennsylvania, said Cathleen Palm, founder of the Center for ...

Deaths and near-fatalities among children in Washington’s child welfare system have slowed, but are still expected to hit a record level in 2025. Through the first nine months of the year, Washington ...

Critical injuries for Washington children involved in the state’s welfare system jumped significantly in the first half of this year. Through June, at least 92 children had died or nearly died, ...

The state agency responsible for keeping Illinois’ most vulnerable children safe has failed to produce legally required public reports after examining what went wrong in hundreds of cases of child ...

(Photo courtesy of the state Department of Children, Youth and Families.) Deaths and near-fatalities among children in Washington’s child welfare system have slowed, but are still expected to hit a ...

The state's Department of Children and Family Services is legally required to make the reports public after examining what went wrong but did not in thousands of instances. DCFS never produced a ...