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The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) is responsible for investigating charges of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children, the elderly, and adults with disabilities. Prior to its creation in 2004, the agency had been called the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services ( DPRS ).
Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) The 84th Texas Legislature, 2015, abolished this agency effective Sept. 1, 2017. [3] DADS services were transferred to HHSC. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) House Bill 5, 85th Regular Legislative Session, 2017, established DFPS as an agency independent of Texas ...
During that same period, almost 120,000 birth to five year-olds entered foster care and a little under 100,000 exited foster care. [44] U.S. child protective services (CPS) received a little over 2.5 million reports of child maltreatment in 2009 of which 61.9% were assigned to an investigation. [45]
The groups implored all lawmakers to address issues such as the state’s waiting list of about 80,000 children who are awaiting financial assistance to help pay for child care, in addition to the ...
The state's top child welfare official said she legally cannot talk in public about the homeless Topeka 5-year-old who police say was raped and killed earlier this week.
Officials won’t confirm that the licensing complaint against Cornerstones of Care involved the care of Ace Scott, 15, who ran away from a child welfare office on April 11, 2022, and whose body ...
The Kansas Department for Children and Families (formerly the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services) is a state agency in Kansas, responsible for the delivery of social services to those in need of them. [4] The agency was founded in 1973, and it is currently headed by Laura Howard.
The proposed bill would allow Kansas’ child welfare agency to release information earlier. Two weeks after Topeka child’s murder, KS Gov. Kelly pushes child welfare transparency law Skip to ...