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Three child care bills are moving in the House. One would tighten requirements for child care workers.
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In a state legislative session preoccupied with gambling, guns, booze and tax cuts, the Children's Movement of Florida is pushing a cause that gets little…
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A House panel Tuesday approved a proposal aimed at tightening the sweeping reforms that lawmakers placed into Florida's child-welfare system last year.The…
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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 custody…
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A child welfare caseworker, two psychologists who failed to report suspected child abuse, and the cousin in charge of caring for a severely disabled…
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The Florida Department of Children and Families is working with the agency that oversees child welfare in Miami to resolve issues that have included an…
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After an embarrassing article appeared in The Miami Herald in September, a regional supervisor for the Department of Children and Families ordered workers…
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Over the next few days, Gov. Rick Scott will examine the state’s $77 billion budget and decide, what if anything to veto. Among the health items in the…
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The Florida Senate rejected a last-minute amendment supported by Gov. Rick Scott’s administration that would have severely weakened a bill meant to…
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Higher speed limits, medical marijuana, and child abuse are among the issues in the news today as the Legislature hits its end-of-session frenzy.Here’s a…