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Sources: World Bank, UNICEF,UNDP HDR 2015, DHS 2014 |
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In this article and accompanying radio piece, NPR sheds light on the issues facing children who have lost one or both parents as a result of an ISIS attack in Mosul, Iraq.
In this study, 30 primary school aged UK adoptees without a history of institutionalisation completed an assessment of their intellectual, executive functioning and social communication abilities.
This review aims to systematically review methodological challenges and limitations of interventions designed to help carers meet the needs of children in alternative care, to provide an analysis of the current state of the evidence base for these interventions.
Working collaboratively with two state associations and their member (nonprofit) agencies providing out-of-home care to children and youth, University researchers conducted a multi-site project to examine whether there were any differences in individual child-level outcomes between children placed in residential group care and those placed in foster.
This review aims to systematically review methodological challenges and limitations of interventions designed to help foster carers meet the needs of children, to provide an analysis of the current state of the evidence base for these interventions.
This article will discuss the impact of reforms on time limits in decision-making for children, questioning whether they achieve both good decisions for children and justice for families.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, on behalf of the government of Canada, has offered a formal apology for the use of residential schools for indigenous children in Newfoundland and Labrador, according to this article from the BBC.
This article describes the history and philosophy of foster care in Egypt.
This paper presents a model of care‐leaving that incorporates developments in the political economy of health literature to show how differing welfare state arrangements shape health by mediating the distribution of economic and social resources over the life course for populations in general and for those in and leaving care specifically.
This study implemented a systematic review process to identify the personal characteristics, skills and abilities of successful resource families that maximize foster and adoptive parent retention and maximize placement permanency of teens placed in out of home care.
