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This blog post highlights groups and organizations that are working to strengthen the social service workforce in order to prevent family separation, including Better Care Network.

This paper summarises how genetically-informed research designs can help disentangle genetic from environmental processes underlying psychopathology outcomes for children, and how this evidence can provide improved insights into the development of more effective preventative intervention targets for adoption and foster-care families.

This secondary analysis of data describing 1186 maltreated children, drawn from the US National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being II, examined racial disparities in their access to and receipt of needed services and in their caseworkers' case planning and engagement with caregivers.

This paper is rooted in research commissioned by one local authority that used an innovative visual ‘river of experience’ co- production approach to understand better the experiences of children and families on their journeys to the edge of care and to inform how statutory services might respond ‘better’, and possibly earlier, to prevent children being taken into care.

In this video, the BBC's Ashley John-Baptiste, who grew up in care himself, meets two care leavers as they face the financial and emotional challenges of starting higher education.

The state of Victoria in Australia has adopted a new policy extending the age at which young people must leave care from 18 to 21, according to this article from the Sydney Morning Herald.

The Early Childhood Care and Development Adviser will lead and manage Whole Child International’s ECCD component of the recently awarded USAID’s five-year PROMOVER project.

This paper reports on a qualitative study of outcomes for permanence and stability for children in long-term care in Ireland.

In this qualitative study with four Child and Youth Care Centers in a town in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, focus groups were held with young people in care and their care workers to discuss preparation for leaving care and aftercare services and the evaluation of these by each group of participants.

This paper reports on a qualitative study of outcomes for permanence and stability for children in long-term care in Ireland.