Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Minnesota has a history of failing to protect children from repeated harm and of disproportionately separating families of color.

A new bill before the Nova Scotia Legislature is making changes to the way publication bans guard the identity of a child in the care of the province — keeping them in place even if that child dies.

The Nova Scotia government intends to broaden its publication ban on identifying children who have been in the child ...

Gov. Tim Walz will propose extra funding to hire more child protection workers and state lawmakers will meet Dec. 4 to begin discussing potential reforms in the wake of a Star Tribune investigation ...

The state agency that oversees child protection in Minnesota has named a new top official to run that division, following a series of highly publicized breakdowns in the system for protecting children ...

A child safety reform expert has delivered a chilling warning to the Queensland Commission of Inquiry into Child Safety, revealing the true number of children in state care is currently concealed.

Frontline workers warn vulnerable children will continue to suffer serious harm, including death, with reports of starving children, drug-exposed babies and other cases of severe neglect as chronic ...

Colorado’s child-welfare systems are broken, according to the National Coalition for Child Protection and Reform and the MJCF Coalition. The problem is twofold, the groups claim: According to a report ...

The commissioner’s inquiry into the state’s child protection system concluded its Toowoomba hearings on Thursday, February 26.