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Catholic Relief Services is seeking a  Senior Technical Advisor for OVC/Youth (Southern Africa) to lead and provide technical assistance to SARO’s programming for orphans and vulnerable children, and to provide technical leadership and guidance on issues affecting programming for vulnerable children across the region.   

Organizations working to protect the health and wellbeing of children in emergencies are moving away from traditional paper-based systems towards more sophisticated and innovative digitally-based systems. Formative research was conducted to identify the state of the current evidence base on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) for child protection case management in emergencies (CPCME). 

This report by Save the Children Australia and UNICEF Australia explores the human, economic and strategic cost of Australia’s current policies which seek to deter asylum seekers from migrating to Australia by sea.

This paper discusses the study of foster parent perspectives on decision-making relevant to the use of psychotropics with children in foster care.  

European Scientific Association on Residential & Family Care for Children and Adolescents will hold its 14th International Conference. The aim of the conference is to connect knowledge and evidence in child welfare practice and to stimulate debates and discussions that could transfer sound research findings to practices in child welfare and improve interventions in the future. 

The conference will be held 13-16 September 2016 in Oviedo, Spain.

Cate Blanchett performs the rhythmic poem ‘What They Took With Them’ alongside fellow actors Keira Knightley, Juliet Stevenson, Peter Capaldi, Stanley Tucci, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kit Harington, Douglas Booth, Jesse Eisenberg and Neil Gaiman.

This news article from IllinoisHomepage.net highlights the recent report released by the Illinois State Auditor, which reports that children who are supposed to be in foster care are spending too much time in psychiatric and other detention facilities.  The report can be downloaded here from the BCN Site.

The Global Alliance for Children (GAC) is seeking to hire a vibrant Senior Coordinator to lead GAC’s work with the Technical Working Group Implementation. 

This is a Proposed Rule document from the U.S. Department of State regarding international adoptions.  The Department of State (the Department) proposes to amend requirements for accreditation of agencies and approval of persons who provide adoption services in intercountry adoption cases.

This media briefing from Oxfam describes the Italian reception system for unaccompanied minors which "has turned out to be inadequate for protecting lone refugee and migrant children and their rights," according to the report.