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Summary guidance on the use of therapeutic language and the role of play and art in helping children’s development, and in responding to children exposed to trauma.
Provides a brief overview of the main issues relating to out-of-home care of children. It emphasizes the need for practice and policy responses that reinforce family- and community-based care and support options.
A brief theoretical overview of the considerations for permanency planning.
A set of standards for residential settings, including the young person’s welcome into care, the quality of care they should receive, contact arrangements, and listening and responding to the views of young people.
A set of standards guiding services for children who have been adopted, birth families, and adoptive parents.
Serves as an example of fostering service standards from the perspective of children, birth families, and foster caregivers
A set of standards and indicators to guide staff and agencies in the provision of a minimum standard of care for children. The standards apply across a range of care settings and cover the delivery and administration of child care services, staff and caregiver competence, and the quality of care children should expect to receive.
A paper introducing the concept of a ‘Protective Environment’ which outlines the elements required in a society for the effective protection of children from violence, exploitation and abuse.
Assessment of the care system, domestic adoption, and international adoption in Ukraine with a summary of key findings and recommendations.
The first situational analysis of children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS in Liberia that provides baseline information for developing national planning processes for OVCs.