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Lawmakers unanimously moved a bill forward requiring in person checks for the Department of Child Services before they can close out alleged cases of abuse and neglect. The bill is in response to the death of an Indianapolis five-year-old.

State officials, lawmakers and advocates gathered at the Statehouse Tuesday to push for more resources to prevent child abuse and encourage people to report suspected cases.

The Worker2Worker program provides frontline staff at the Indiana Department of Child Services access to a free and confidential hotline.

WFYI confirmed this breakdown in communication goes against DCS policy. Child protective staff are supposed to report substantiated claims of abuse or neglect involving a licensed teacher in the course of their employment or on school grounds to the Indiana Secretary of Education.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of an Indiana couple who said their transgender daughter was wrongly removed from their care. They said their child's removal was because of their religion, but lower courts disagree with that claim.

A couple sued DCS for taking custody of their trans child and lost. Now they’re asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in.

More than a dozen incidents of sexual abuse have surfaced at Pierceton Woods Academy. But the state kept sending boys there anyway, according to a new investigation by the IndyStar and ProPublica.

Nine children in Indiana’s foster care system filed a class action lawsuit against the Indiana Department of Child Services alleging it is “failing to keep children safe”.