Nigeria

This article outlines how the risk of children experiencing violence has increased and how the pandemic has weakened the capacity of child protection and mental health services to respond.

This study investigated rates of guardianship and adoption dissolution using a complete entry cohort from a large state foster care system and the associations between child characteristics and risk factors with dissolution.

Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC) is seeking a consultant to prepare a framework, strategy and resources around collective impact to help inform and guide its new initiative in Moldova, the CTWWC Chief of Party (COP) in Moldova, and the implementing partners.

Participants at this event will have the chance to join with others in their region -- either virtually or in-person -- with local events across the country and global network events in countries worldwide.

According to this article from BBC News, the children's commissioner for England has called for a ban on placing under-18s in care in unregulated homes amid concerns over sexual and criminal exploitation.

This study’s objective was (1) to investigate if having parent(s) born outside of Europe has an additional effect on the risk of entry into out-of-home care (OHC) in cases of alleged parental physical violence against children, and (2) to discuss potential empirical support for the risk model and the bias model for explaining the over-representation.

This case study explores the arriving process of an unaccompanied minor refugee in Germany and his perception of the psychosocial support he received.

ChildFund Alliance is hosting a webinar on 9 September on children's views on COVID-19 lockdown.

The RIC (Risk Indication in Child sexual abuse) and its screening version (RIC:SV) are actuarial risk assessment instruments, developed at the Austrian Federal Evaluation Centre for Violent and Sexual Offenders and designed for child protection services to assess the likelihood of sexual recidivism in male contact child sexual abusers who still or again live within a family including children.

This paper aims to describe the experiences of youth preparing to age out of cluster foster care in South Africa.