Florida Department of Children and Families

The Senate Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee voted to combine three child welfare bills into one (SB 1666) on Wednesday, the News…

This weekend, investigators continued to unravel multiple cases of child abuse as questions about child welfare loom across the state.In St. Petersburg, a…

The company responsible for Florida’s troubled unemployment database won a $31.6 million contract with the Department of Children and Families for the…

A bill aimed at forestalling school shootings by teaching adults to detect disturbed teenagers and intervene before it's too late has passed the Senate…

Florida has been granted a long-term waiver on how it uses federal money for at-risk children. The five-year waiver from the U.S. Department of Health and…

The Palm Beach County deputy who responded to Linda Camberdella's 911 call about her teen-age son Michael had been trained and certified in how to handle…

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

A 9-year-old boy who was almost stabbed to death by his own father is suing the Florida Department of Children and Families for not doing enough to…

David Wilkins resigned Thursday as secretary of the Department of Children and Families as DCF reeled from the deaths of four children in six weeks and…

After the unnecessary deaths of four Florida children under supervision of the Department of Children and Families, the agency has begun training 5,000…