In summary California child welfare agencies must investigate claims of Native American ancestry before separating a family, the California Supreme Court stressed in a new ruling that affects ...

California kids were taken from their parents for their own safety. Then county social workers abused them, they say. San Diego County is confronting hundreds of lawsuits filed by now-grown ...

In response to the tragic abuse and disappearance of Fayette County toddler Kahleb Collins, a new legislative proposal is ...

In 2022, Scripps News began tracking cases of fentanyl poisonings among babies, toddlers, and young children. We wanted to show how the powerful opioid is a ...

A one-year-old boy has died from heatstroke after he was left inside a hot vehicle for over two hours while his mother ...

Their son, now 5-years-old, suffered permanent brain damage, leaving him a quadriplegic unable to walk, talk, or see.

But according to the California Child Welfare Indicators Project, only 1-in-9 cases of child abuse or neglect was substantiated in 2023.

Two parents in Northern California have been charged with murder after their child was found buried near a lake, authorities say.

Now, Gomez, a graduate of the University of California, Davis, is realizing her ambition through a program to professionalize and add to the corps of social workers at public child welfare ...

A key argument in this case was whether including tribal general welfare payments in child support calculations would infringe on tribal sovereignty.