The SOS Children rsquo;s Village Ghana, in collaboration with Friends of Adaklu, has held a Community Durbar at Goefe in the ...

State records show 119 people died in New Hampshire’s intellectual and developmental disability system from January 2023 through the first six months of 2025. Of those deaths, at least 22 were ...

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) has integrated a new online reporting system for mandated reporters to ensure all concerns of abuse, neglect and financial exploitation of ...

South Wales Police works well with safeguarding partners and is good at responding to children at risk of harm. But it needs to make further progress in how it investigates reports of abuse, neglect ...

RICHMOND, Va. — A new online portal is making it easier to report allegations of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of elderly and incapacitated adults. The number of reports to Adult Protective Services ...

ELYRIA, Ohio — Lorain County Adult Protective Services is grappling with a dramatic rise in elder abuse cases, marked by increasingly complex and severe incidents of neglect, abuse and financial ...

IF ANY INFORMATION, CALL POLICE. CASES OF ELDER ABUSE HAVE SPIKED WITHIN THE LAST FEW YEARS, ACCORDING TO THE HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY ALYSSA MUNOZ. WHILE THEY’RE TRYING TO STOP THE PROBLEM NOW, PASSING ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The state failed to properly investigate many allegations of abuse, neglect and exploitation of some of Virginia’s most vulnerable, according to a new audit report. On Friday, ...

Kansas' system for reporting abuse, neglect and exploitation is fragmented, an audit says, leading to uncertainty about the completeness of perpetrator registries. Different state agencies investigate ...

Every state has mandatory reporting laws that require certain professionals like doctors or teachers to report child abuse and neglect. But in Florida, every adult is a mandated reporter. Florida law ...