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ABOUT LUMOS
Lumos is an international children’s charity founded in 2005 by the author J.K. Rowling to end the harmful practice of institutionalization of children. Lumos’s mission is to fight for every child’s right to a family by transforming care systems around the world. Our vision is for all children to grow up in safe and loving families.
Despite clear evidence of the harms of institutionalization, an estimated 5.4 million children…
Katharine Sacks-Jones, Chief Executive of Become, said the number of children in care in England reached a record high of almost 84,000 last year, there “aren't enough places for them to live” and a national strategy is urgently needed to address the shortage.
She said councils are also “desperately” competing for places at privately-run children’s homes and paying “huge” fees.
Rabat - Amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has revealed an estimate of at least 17,000 children who are unaccompanied or separated from their families.
Speaking at a virtual press conference from Jerusalem, UNICEF spokesperson for Palestinian territories, Jonathan Crickx, emphasized the immense difficulty in locating these children, stating that at times,…
Shared parenting, when adults collaborate in childrearing, is a practice of interest for children in out-of-home care. Yet, little is known about its feasibility and outcomes for kinship families who have preexisting relationships with birth parents.
This article shares qualitative results from focus groups that explored participants’ experiences and attitudes toward shared parenting. The sample comprised 25 kinship caregivers and 34 child welfare professionals. Findings revealed that shared parenting within kinship families is often less feasible than desired.
This article identifies…
While children have always been a part of migration flows, migration scholarship has, until recently, ignored their experiences. Seminal theories focused on adult male migrants, concentrating on how individuals or family units make rational decisions to maximize return on labor, diversify income sources, and pursue socioeconomic mobility by migrating to places where wages are higher.
In the 1970s, feminist scholarship began to question the validity of these explanatory frameworks, bringing attention to the experiences of women as independent migratory actors with their own agency and…
Family-centred practice (FCP) has been suggested as a best practice for treating youth with emotional and behavioural difficulties in residential care. In this preregistered global systematic review, the authors examined how FCP is operationalized and measured in residential youth care and which family outcomes are associated with FCP. Their systematic search in six databases identified 5784 articles. Their analyses included articles by coding the operationalizations of FCP in the interventions and study measures. Further, they descriptively summarized relations between FCP and family…
This is a summary of children's homes in the Chiang Mai Province of Thailand over the last 1.5 years. The research team visited a total of 371 private children's homes. This summary provides an extensive and useful data set for those interested in the reform of private children's homes.
The goal of this study was to survey and study the nature of and operation of private children's homes in Chiang Mai Province and to be a model for Thailand in the process of documenting these private children’s homes.
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Close attention should be given to the increased reliance on kinship care to provide out-of-home care for vulnerable children and youth because although these families have various strengths, they also frequently face financial instability and experience material hardship. Living in poverty and experiencing material hardship are linked to an array of negative outcomes, including physical and mental …
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Why are care-experienced children and young people over criminalised, and how can we better support them? This session explores the reasons behind the unnecessary criminilisation of vulnerable young people and how a joined up approach from social workers, foster carers, kinship carers, lawyers and advocates can help end it.
We will be looking at concepts like adultification and its impact in bringing looked after children and young people into contact with the criminal justice system. We will also be learning about the response from Local Authorities to the production of…