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Department of social services
Independent reporting on CPS, foster care, adoption and family court — the cases the system would rather keep quiet.

Following the Money, a four-part series on South Carolina’s child-welfare spending.
October 27, 2026
Following the Money, a four-part series on where child-welfare dollars go: emergency spending for children sleeping in offices, $17.7 million in lab charges with no lab named, $292.7 million in county child support money
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