Children Affected by Poverty and Social Exclusion

Around the world, poverty and social exclusion are driving factors behind the placement of children into alternative care.  Families give up their children because they are too poor to care for them, or they feel that it is the best way to help them to access basic services such as education and health care. Discrimination and cultural taboos mean that girls, children with disabilities, ethnic minorities, children with HIV/AIDS and children born out of wedlock, make up a disproportionate number of children abandoned into alternative care.

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Yuval Saar‐Heiman - Child & Family Social Work,

Based on the ongoing, rigorous documentation of the author's experience, as a social work practitioner in a community child protection centre, this article presents two single‐case studies that describe and conceptualize the potential contribution of the poverty‐aware paradigm to the creation of a social framework for child protection practice.

Meredith Lunsford, Solyda Say, Safa Shahkhalili - UNICEF Cambodia,

This research study was commissioned to generate a better understanding of three school communities in Cambodia: Islamic schools, Buddhist monastic schools, and floating schools with a focus on identifying challenges in delivering quality and inclusive education.

Meredith Lunsford, Solyda Say, Safa Shahkhalili - UNICEF Cambodia,

This research study was commissioned to generate a better understanding of three school communities in Cambodia: Islamic schools, Buddhist monastic schools, and floating schools with a focus on identifying challenges in delivering quality and inclusive education.

Wendy Haight, Cary Waubanascum, David Glesener, Priscilla Day, Brenda Bussey, Karen Nichols - Children and Youth Services Review,

This research addresses one of the most pressing and controversial issues facing child welfare policymakers and practitioners today: the dramatic overrepresentation of Indigenous families in North American public child welfare systems. The article presents a successful model of inclusive education: the Center for Regional and Tribal Child Welfare Studies (the Center) at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, School of Social Work.

David Gordon, Şebnem Eroğlu, Eldin Fahmy, Viliami Konifelenisi Fifita, Shailen Nandy, Acomo Oloya, Marco Pomati and Helen Anderson,

This report represents the successful integration of multidimensional child poverty measures in national statistics. In doing so it provides a better understanding of child poverty in Uganda by augmenting Uganda’s rich tradition of poverty analysis with a more deprivation-centred analytical tool.

Henry Joel Crumé, Paula S. Nurius, Christopher M. Fleming - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study applies cumulative adversity and stress proliferation theories to examine risk and protective resource profiles of youth with three different levels of housing and parental care instability.

Cheney, Kristen, Sinervo, Aviva (Eds.),

This book explores how humanitarian interventions for children in difficult circumstances engage in affective commodification of disadvantaged childhoods.

Jennifer Ma, Barbara Fallon, Kenn Richard - Child Abuse & Neglect,

The objectives of this article are to: 1) estimate the rate of overrepresentation of First Nations children and youth involved in child welfare investigations in the Ontario child welfare system and, 2) determine which factors drive the overrepresentation of First Nations children in child welfare at the investigation stage compared to White children.

UNICEF and ILO,

UNICEF and ILO published a joint report aiming to contribute to the ongoing discussions about the future of social protection for children.

Emily Keddell, Ian Hyslop - Child & Family Social Work,

Indigenous children have a long history of overrepresentation in child protection systems. This exploratory, mixed methods study examined practitioner perceptions of risk in response to client ethnic group.