Department of Children and Families

The head of Florida’s child welfare system gained unanimous approval during his initial Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

With the rate of children coming into Florida's foster-care system slowly increasing, state lawmakers are studying how to improve the options of where...

Florida is on pace to have nearly as many child deaths this year as it did before the overhaul of its child welfare system last year. In about a quarter…

Florida is on pace to have nearly as many child deaths this year as it did before the overhaul of its child welfare system last year. In about a quarter…

The Florida Department of Children and Families is teaming up with the University of Central Florida to get more social workers with a four-year degree...

The state Department of Children and Families has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by Disability Rights Florida and move toward providing more options...

A report by the state Department of Children and Families on the death of a 3-year-old Hollywood boy is prompting talk among policymakers about the next...

A bill that would make clear national groups like the Boys and Girls Clubs are exempt from Florida licensing requirements is stalled in a legislative...

A panel of Florida lawmakers got an update Tuesday on a report, detailing what led to the tragic death of a little girl last month. In early January,...

Gov. Rick Scott has made Mike Carroll his permanent secretary of the Department of Children & Families. Scott on Monday removed the "interim" from...

State child welfare officials are looking into what went wrong in their handling of an investigation of a Florida man who shot himself and his family...

Two weeks before a Florida man fatally shot his daughter and six grandchildren, someone called the state child abuse hotline, worried that adults were...