Foster Care and Child Welfare Archives

How Philly can look to New Jersey to fix its child welfare system

The problems bedeviling Philadelphia’s child welfare system — too many kids in foster care, worker vacancies, and lawsuits stemming from child injuries and deaths — have all steadily waned in […]

Inside Philly’s hidden foster care system, where parents ‘voluntarily’ give up their children

Philly removes neglected children from homes to keep them safe. But they often face worse abuse in foster care placements.

Philly DHS took a 1-year-old from her mother but the girl was then kicked to death

Philly still keeps the benefits of foster care youths despite a 2022 law

Resolve Reporters See Policy Change

The city’s department of human services took in nearly $5 million in children’s Social Security benefits between fiscal years 2016 and 2020 that belonged to hundreds of youth in foster […]