Research shows that early childhood maltreatment is associated with significant delays in social and cognitive development.

When investigated by the police, hospital staff, and child protective services (CPS), each entity may view the same events differently, but the sole and final decisionmaker is CPS.

House Health Chairwoman Amy Summers is asking how the public’s representatives can learn more about a state agency’s responses to sensitive child protective services cases. The question has ...

Dozens gathered at Kern County Board of Supervisors demanding justice for 8-year-old Genesis Mata and calling for an independent investigation of Child Protective Services.

Police arrested a man after a years-long investigation into the repeated sexual abuse of a child under 13 in Newark. Daniel R. Shaffer, 43, was taken into custody in Florida and flown back to New York ...

During the past year, 12 children who had been the subject of reports of abuse or neglect to the state’s child protective services died, according to a report released Wednesday.

During an hour-plus of testimony to the Kern County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, more than a dozen residents painted a grim ...

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Kern County is moving to conduct an external investigation of its child protective services following the death of an ...

Research shows that early childhood maltreatment is associated with significant delays in social and cognitive development. Unfortunately, according to the United States Department of Health and Human ...