child welfare

It's been 15 years since a federal monitor was put in place, as part of the modified settlement of a 1999 lawsuit over New Jersey's foster care system.

A new report on the welfare of Jersey's kids contains good and bad news for the state.

Last November, just days after police officers were removed from New Jersey child welfare offices in a cost-cutting move, a caseworker was stabbed in her Camden office by a client. Following that attack, the state Department of Children and Families took immediate and long-term action.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey has hired a lawyer to try to get its child welfare system out from under the federal oversight it has had for 12 years.

South Brunswick police are looking for two women they believe used a child to steal a wallet from a shopping cart inside the Target on Route 1.

Yesterday we told you about a federal monitor report showing that while progress was being made in New Jersey's child welfare system, more could be done.  Today, a state DYFS worker has been accused of child endangerment.

New Jersey's Department of Children and Families has made strides in many areas, but continues to fall short of several key performance benchmarks, according to the latest court-ordered progress report issued by a federal monitor Wednesday.