foster care

The bills of rights would give 40 total rights to both foster kids and foster parents.

The Division of the Child Advocate was established in October 2021 as an ombudsman's office with special attention to the cases of foster children. The office started investigating complaints last year.

Despite a child sexual assault investigation, a San Antonio foster executive kept his job at Texas Foster Care & Adoption Services.

Kansas was supposed to make sure that foster care providers stopped making kids sleep in offices and similar places by the end of 2021.

The Division of the Child Advocate, an office less than a year old, has already closed seven cases and found some troubling handling of foster care.

Changes in state law should help expand mental health services, but it will take years to get everyone on board.

The decision could have wide-ranging impacts for biological families aggrieved by a judge's decision on whether to give custody rights to adoptive or foster families.

The federal judge overseeing the decadelong lawsuit against Texas for conditions in its foster care system cut this week’s hearing short. She proposed all parties involved, including the governor, “cut to the chase” to identify solutions.

Increased oversight and lack of funding mean hundreds of children spend their nights in hotels and churches and on office floors.

TOPEKA, Kansas — The same kids who end up in trouble with the law often come from families in disarray. Those families, in turn, regularly turn to the...