The Office of the Child Advocate has found numerous alleged failings in the state Department of Children and Families’ handling of a case in which a 10-month-old boy died from fentanyl, xylazine and ...

The Department of Children and Families failed to provide adequate services to six female teenagers who suffered sex trafficking victimization or ended up in the juvenile justice system while in the ...

A review of the events leading up to a 2-year-old’s death by blunt force injury to the head found the state’s child protection agency and judicial staff didn’t follow proper procedures in handling the ...

Vulnerabilities allow predators an opportunity to gain the trust of victims of any age by promising to meet those needs or to ...

The Kansas Department of Children and Families (DCF) says at least one skimming device has stolen non-refundable Supplemental ...

The death of a 2-year-old New London boy, whose remains were found in a suitcase three years after he was killed, has prompted a new directive at the state Department of Children and Families.

That is a phrase that a Department of Children and Families worker used to describe the conditions in the Hartford apartment where toddler Corneliuz Williams fell from a third-floor window on July 22 ...

DCF said it received notification Jan. 5 from several Kansans that their benefits were being used in Pennsylvania.

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) was aware of a Polk County girl’s consistent weight loss two years before she died of long-term starvation, according ...

MARION COUNTY, Fla. — The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said they are looking for three children who may be in danger after their mother refused to cooperate with the Department of Children and ...

Investigations into child abuse, abandonment and neglect in some Florida counties may soon be handled by the state’s Department of Children and Families, an agency that’s been suffering surging ...