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This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
ReThink Orphanages Australia has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2018 World Responsible Travel Awards, says this article from Save the Children Australia.
This segment from Roundtable explores the issue of voluntourism and its potential to yield harmful impacts. The participants, including Georgette Mulheir the CEO of Lumos, discuss orphanage voluntourism among other forms of voluntourism.
Inquiries into historical institutional abuse have only recently come to be viewed through the lens of transitional justice. This article argues that their distinctive victim-focused approach disguises a reality that institutions in which violence was endemic blurred the line between victims and ‘perpetrators.’
In this paper, the urgent need to strengthen the child protection system in India is presented in the context of the Integrated Child Protection Scheme and relevant juvenile justice legislation.
This paper is based on findings from an Irish study of permanence and stability outcomes for children in long-term care which involved biographical narrative interviews with 27 children, young people, parents and foster carers.
In this study from PLoS ONE, the relationship between family structure and positive adolescent sexual behaviour, measured as delay in sexual debut, was examined using the bioecological theory framed by a risk and resilience perspective. After controlling for other covariates, the study found that adolescents living with neither parent had lower odds of delaying sexual debut although results were only significant for males.
This MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) helps you explore and develop an understanding of the approaches involved in caring for vulnerable children.
The Eurochild Conference in Opatija will bring positive examples of how public decision-makers at local, national and European levels are respecting the right of children to participate in decisions affecting them.
To illustrate design and implementation of the Strategies for Enhancing Early Developmental Success (SEEDS) Preschool Program, aimed at promoting school readiness in families connected to the child welfare system, the current paper uses parent- and teacher-reported data to summarize the progress of three participating families with diverse histories and presenting issues.