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The Associated Press reports that a "notorious South Korean facility that kidnapped, abused and enslaved children and the disabled for a generation was also shipping children overseas for adoption, part of a massive profit-seeking enterprise that thrived by exploiting those trapped within its walls."

Reflecting upon research on child neglect, this article focuses on the importance (or lack thereof) given to the views of families in neglect situation within this field.

The aim of this study is to examine mental ill-health amongst children known to social services based on care exposure including those who remain at home, those placed in foster care, kinship care or institutional care and the general population not known to social services.

The purpose of this paper is to study an examination of existing international research concerning unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) and of whether, and if so how, issues relating to drug use and criminality among these children are discussed in the international literature.

This is a study on perceptions of child abuse and interventions in cases of abuse in the Family and Childhood Support Centres in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

"Thousands of children in care whose immigration status will be affected by Brexit could find themselves in the UK unlawfully, facing homelessness, immigration detention or deportation, an immigration legal charity has said," says this article from the Guardian.

the UNICEF Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (ECARO) is looking for a national consultant to be part of the core group to assist Slovakia in developing a national monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework for substitute care for children and in building capacity to implement, evaluate, and develop it further over time.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Vientiane, Lao PDR is looking for a qualified Individual International Consultancy for Development of the National Alternative Care Guidelines for children in Lao PDR and government training modules. 

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In this paper, the authors first present five longitudinally socio-political-historical analytic themes appearing in many policy analysis approaches identified in a literature review, with special reference to child welfare policies. Then, as a case study, the authors apply these themes to understand the evolution of child welfare policies in Israel.