When a child is removed from the care of his or her parents and placed in the custody of the Department of Social Services, the Department must make efforts to achieve a permanency plan for the child.

This article discusses the evolution and ongoing challenges in New York’s child protective system, especially regarding permanency hearings and case delays. Recent reforms emphasize timely hearings to ...

Foster care is meant to be “a temporary service for short-term care and supportive services to children who are unable to live at home because of child abuse or neglect.” The longer a child remains in ...

Maria* would wait until the last minute to tell her daughter, fostered for nearly 10 years, that the following day she would have to sit in front of a board that will decide her future for the next ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - One parent with experience in the child welfare system will be chosen as a voting member of the Task Force on Permanency Planning. The Kansas Supreme Court says it needs a parent ...