California child welfare agencies under fire for pocketing foster kids’ Social Security money By Jeanne Kuang Published April 6, 2023 at 11:39 AM PDT ...

Over 70,000 children and youth in California have an open case in the child welfare system, according to the most recent point-in-time count, with over 51,000 of them also in foster care.

More than 51,339 children and youth in California have an open case in the child welfare system, according to the most recent point-in-time count.Children in an out-of-home placement in the child ...

Nearly $920 million was dedicated to child welfare services in California’s 2023 budget, including funding for in-home parenting programs that are considered the gold standard because they meet ...

Central California’s Tulare County will pay $32 million to settle a lawsuit alleging its child welfare agency failed to respond to reports of abuse involving the boy, who at 10 months old was ...

The case comes four months after the 13 children of David Allen Turpin and Louise Ann Turpin were found bound, shackled and malnourished at their Perris, California, home in January after one of ...

Family's deadly plunge off California cliff may have been intentional 02:43. PORTLAND, Ore. -- Oregon child welfare officials knew the family in an SUV that plunged off a California cliff had ...

In rarer cases they also apply for veterans’ benefits earmarked for the children of those who died in military ... In total California’s child welfare system costs about $5 billion annually, ...

This point-in-time count includes those who are under the age of 1 up to age 21 and who have “an open child welfare or probation supervised placement episode” in California’s Child Welfare ...

California child welfare agencies under fire for pocketing foster kids’ benefits Los Angeles County has the greatest share of the caseload, with custody of about a third of the state’s foster ...

California child welfare agencies under fire for pocketing foster kids’ Social Security money. A California grandmother fights to retrieve $30,000 taken by San Diego County from her ...