British Prime Minister Keir Starmer marks a year in office this week, facing challenges from within his party and the public ...

North Carolina's Fostering Care in NC Act aims to overhaul child welfare system, expand state oversight, and reduce time to ...

Re: “Travis Decker search: WA lawmakers, advocates demand family court reforms” (June 13, Local News): When courts miss the mark, kids bear the ultimate cost, as did Paityn, Evelyn and ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer marks a year in office this week, facing challenges from within his party and the public ...

The government’s £2.5bn welfare U-turn, intended to avert a massive backbench rebellion, followed Reeves’ grudging decision to rewrite her plan to cut winter fuel payment to pensioners, costing her an ...

Senate leadership is trumpeting legislation ( SB 7012) just approved by Gov. Ron DeSantis that is expected to improve child ...

Over a million current disability benefit claimants have been left out of Labour’s welfare concessions – and most are ...

The state has been plagued by serious child welfare issues for years. Most recently, there was the fatal neglect of a teenager in Boone County in 2024, as well as the conviction in March 2025 of a ...

Kinnear-Rausch will be leading a team of social workers who frequently appeared en masse before the Board of Supervisors to ...

Titled the Fostering Care in NC Act, the law gives the state Department of Health and Human Services more power to hold ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer avoided a humiliating parliamentary defeat on key welfare reforms Tuesday, after making ...

New legislation will require callers to the state child abuse hotline to identify themselves. ProPublica’s reporting in 2023 ...