Nigeria

This study explores the recent adaptation of foster care (Koruyucu Aile) in Turkey.

UNICEF is hosting a webinar to discuss the findings and recommendations from the new report Building Bridges for Every Child: Reception, Care and Services to Support Unaccompanied Children in the United States.

This webinar, hosted by CELCIS and SOS Children's Villages, will present a review of research on residential care and a discussion on enhancing policy and practice. 

UNICEF is seeking a consultant to provide technical support to the Timor-Leste Ministry of Social Solidarity and Inclusion through the Child Protection Officers, for emergency preparedness and response in the COVID 19 pandemic for children living in institutional care, primarily related to case management and registration process.

The research team that authored this article wanted to know if childhood maltreatment directly causes poor mental and physical health.

"The harms of the child welfare system are unconscionably and disproportionately imposed on families of color, particularly Black families, and these family separation practices have demonstrably bad outcomes for the children," says this article from Time.

This webinar will provide information and tools to support next steps in developing a family support and strengthening network.  The webinar will include a detailed review of two continua developed by the National Family Support Network (NFSN).

"Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, has responded to concerns that young children are being separated from their parents in quarantine centres as the city seeks to control its latest Covid-19 outbreak," says this article from the Guardian.

UNICEF Moldova is seeking a consultant to conduct a review of laws and regulations related to guardianship, tutorship, legal representation and legal responsibility in the Republic of Moldova and to develop a Regulation on tutorship and guardianship of the child and, if relevant, propose updates to other relevant regulatory documents.

This study uses longitudinal administrative data to assess the decision to transfer a family to ongoing child welfare services within twelve months of an initial investigation.