Tag: Department for Children and Families
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Child welfare advocates in Kansas are pushing for an independent agency to monitor the state’s troubled foster care system. The nonprofit advocacy group Kansas Appleseed, with support from some lawmakers, wants…
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ child welfare agency balked at releasing records about a 3-year-old girl whose battered body was found this month, despite a 2018 law that aimed to make such documents more…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Lawmakers dropped a plan to increase oversight of Kansas’ troubled child welfare system in the final hours of their annual session, angering advocates. The provision that was eliminated would have created…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has terminated grants to two nonprofit agencies for services for troubled families and plans to renegotiate the grant terms to four agencies for services for foster children, Democratic Gov. Laura…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Democratic Gov.-elect Laura Kelly announced Thursday that she will replace the top administrator at Kansas troubled child welfare agency and successfully pushed the departing leader to put new, major grants to…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The incoming Kansas governor will face a large task dealing with a struggling child welfare system recently hit with a class-action lawsuit alleging conditions were so poor that children suffered mentally…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas child welfare agency failed to meet more than half of 30 federal and state performance standards last year, according to a report that used the agencys data. The Department for…
