Child welfare articles
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Texas held in contempt over child welfare failures
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission will be fined $100,000 a day until it comes into compliance on two remedial court orders.
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Federal judge fines Texas child welfare agency $100K per day for foster care failures
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A federal judge has ordered Texas health and human services officials to pay $100,000 per day in fines for routinely neglecting investigations into allegations of abuse and neglect by children in the state’s beleaguered foster care system, according to a Monday order.
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No mother should have to read their child's suicide note. Here's what it feels like to parent a child who wants to kill themselves
We all know there's a mental health crisis; in 2021 it was thought one in six children had a mental health problem. So our experience will probably resonate with many parents.