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 ...

In April 2025, councils and their partners started rolling out reforms to children's social care, which have subsequently faced significant criticism from social work experts. We look at what they ...

After a year of rejections for children and families roles, I found a job I love by exploring a very different area of social work, writes an anonymous social worker. After 12 months of job hunting as ...

The former head of Alaska’s statewide child abuse forensic clinic resigned last week from her position at a Florida university after an investigation by the institution found she had created a hostile ...

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 ...

Amanda Stoddard expected to be a shoo-in for a licensed nursing assistant job at a Vermont hospital in early 2021 where phlebotomists, who draw patients' blood, were in demand. The career LNA was ...

A report by the peak body for First Nations children has revealed that only 15.6 per cent of child protection spending goes towards family support services. Data shows more than 50 per cent of ...