Florida Department of Children and Families

State workers could get between $5,000 and $10,000 for adopting children under a bill that passed a House panel Tuesday. Lawmakers also want scorecards...

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,...

After John Jonchuck was accused of throwing his 5-year-old daughter Phoebe off a Pinellas County bridge last month, The Florida Department of Children...

Child welfare officials have previously investigated a man who killed his mother and 9-year-old niece. A SWAT team took 23-year-old Jason Rios into...

The two high profile death incidents that occurred in recent months has already spurred a number of changes to Florida’s child welfare agency. That was...

A father accused of throwing his 5-year-old daughter off of a bridge to her death last week was ordered Monday to undergo a mental health evaluation...

Just 12 hours before police said John Jonchuck threw his 5-year-old daughter off a bridge - perhaps while she was still alive - the father calmly told...

As he gets ready to start a second term, Gov. Rick Scott will have to choose leaders for the Florida Department of Children and Families and the…

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...

One of the worst problems facing Florida's troubled child-welfare system, advocates say, is job turnover among the case managers who oversee adoption and…

New money, a new leader and a sweeping new law had Florida's child-welfare professionals and foster parents feeling cautiously optimistic at their annual…