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The province’s audits focus on spending but ignore racial disparities, weak oversight and broken promises to reform the ...

Life can throw curveballs, and few are as challenging as navigating parenthood alone, especially as a first-time mom at the ...

Margaret Workman, a former justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, accused the agency that recently admonished two circuit court judges following their speaking out on child abuse and ...

Margaret Workman, a former justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, accused the agency that recently admonished ...

Washington state will pay $8 million to settle claims that it failed to act on years of warnings about the abuse and neglect ...

Margaret Workman, a former justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, accused the agency that recently admonished ...

Emails show that the girl’s therapist from Las Familias also notified the girl’s CPS caseworker, Erika Tabarez, of the abuse on Oct. 1.

PHOENIX — A special team named to find out why 6,554 child-abuse cases went uninvestigated concluded Friday there was a “systemic failure, a lack of accountability and transparency and bad ...

Each issue we’ll be speaking to a member of the police conduct family to ask them for their thoughts about the conduct world.

The Trump administration took issue with aspects of the grant programs that touched on race, saying they were harmful to ...