Calls for an investigation came after Mata’s family said they had called child protective services multiple times before Mata ...

Research shows that early childhood maltreatment is associated with significant delays in social and cognitive development.

School counselors in Kern County demand CPS reform after Genesis Mata's death, citing broken system that fails to act on abuse reports.

B AKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — For the first time since Genesis Mata’s death, allegedly at the hands of her parents, the ...

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Kern County is moving to conduct an external investigation of its child protective services following the death of an ...

During an hour-plus of testimony to the Kern County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, more than a dozen residents painted a grim ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- A recent state investigation revealed that Child Protective Services (CPS) agencies are not always handling cases of child abuse or neglect appropriately and that the mistakes may ...

They are now in jail on felony child neglect charges. Media talked with neighbors who said they had called the state office of Child Protective Services (CPS) to complain, but nothing happened.

Last year, the Biden administration official in charge of child welfare compared agency field-workers to “overseers on plantations” and advised the public not to call child protective services ...