Department of Children and Families

A Palm Beach County woman was charged with child neglect after a dentist found that her 2- and 3-year-old children had mouths riddled with cavities, the…

The head of Florida’s Department of Children and Families is asking Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Legislature to increase her department’s budget.…

A report by the Casey Family Programs released Tuesday to Florida Senate and House committees showed “a particularly bleak picture” of the state’s…

A mother in West Boca faces a child abuse charge after giving her 6-year-old son one of the Adderall pills that had been prescribed for her, but not him.…

Child-welfare workers thought Michael McMullen and his three siblings weren’t safe with their mother, so they sent them to live with their grandmother.…

George Sheldon, the former head of the state Department of Children and Families, has announced he's running for Florida Attorney General. He'll be up

After the Miami Herald reported that 20 children have died this summer, even though they had been in contact with Department of Children & Families, state…

When the South Florida Sun-Sentinel checked on how the Jimmy Ryce law was working -- the one that allows the state to detain violent sex offenders who are…

A disability rights organization has filed suit against the Department of Children and Families, saying it holds adult patients in psychiatric hospitals…

When Biannela Susana first gave birth, she was a child herself; by the time she was 25 she had four children. Now she has none, and is in Duval County…