The state’s Department of Children and Family Services tried to reach Andrea Luncsford earlier this month after being told ...

The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services received federal approval on Friday, Sept. 20 for several forms of ...

CBS News Chicago Legal Analyst Irv Miller says he cannot think of any case in his career in Illinois when a child under the ...

Cuyahoga County's Division of Children and Family Services Advisory Board is calling on area health systems to hire a ...

On Monday, to provide transparency and accountability, representatives of DCFS presented their findings on child abuse to ...

On January 4, 2022, Benjamin H. Reed allegedly killed Silas, a child protection specialist with DCFS. He was charged in with three counts of First-Degree Murder, one count of Aggravated Battery ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man accused of stabbing a state child welfare worker to death as she was making a home visit to check on children has been found guilty but mentally ill in ...

Reed did not speak at the trial. Several of Silas' family members were in court along with some of her former DCFS workers. Askins testified that Reed and his wife, Amanda, and her four children ...

The state’s Department of Children and Family Services tried to reach Andrea Luncsford earlier this month after being told ...

A former employee of Illinois’ child welfare agency convicted of mishandling the AJ Freund case months before the Crystal ...

The tale of their abortive adoption is just one example of larger systemic problems at DCFS. A group of nine foster children across the state recently filed suit against the agency, saying ...

DU QUOIN — For one family of 10, the Department of Children and Family Services Foster and Adoptive Family picnic at the Du Quoin State Fair is one of the best days of the year. Angie Walta’s ...