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The Child Protection Section, UNICEF Thailand Country Office (TCO) is seeking an individual consultant to develop the National Action Plan and Roadmap on Alternative Care.
This live Q&A session will unpack this newly revised technical note, with the aim to support child protection practitioners and policy makers to put children’s safety and well-being at the centre of their COVID-19 pandemic response.
This article explores the significant emotional and physical health needs of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the European Union, recommending a stepwise approach to delivery of services so as not to overwhelm them.
This paper explores the efficacy of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Convention, UN General Assembly, 1989) through the lens of the over-representation of First Nations children placed in out-of-home care in Canada and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia.
This study uses longitudinal administrative data from twenty U.S. states to examine the risk of returning to foster care after children are either reunified with their parents or placed with guardians outside the foster care system.
The U.S. state of California has "enacted temporary extensions of foster care to ensure young adults aren’t cut off from basic needs benefits, as work, study and much of daily life remains virtually paralyzed," says this article from the Chronicle of Social Change.
"The lockdown measures have increased the risk of children [in Nigeria] becoming victims of domestic violence, bullying and other forms of abuse," says Rev Ifeanyi Mbaegbu in this article.
This study explores the factors that are associated with positive educational outcomes for HYA with and without a foster care history.
This study utilizes a qualitative interview-based design to understand how the the interdisciplinary law office approach to parental representation in child welfare, used in the New York City Family Court, works in practice to impact the outcomes of families’ cases.
The purpose of this study was to longitudinally examine the effects of stigma on the development of children living in out-of-home care situations, specifically with regards to self-esteem and antisocial behavior.