Nigeria

Given the paucity of research on youth transitioning from alternative care (i.e. care-leaving or leaving care) in Africa, the study sought to develop and test a methodology for a cross-country, comparative study on leaving care in Africa.

A group of young people with care experience came together on a webinar on June 6, 2020 and developed this set of commitments and recommendations specific to the issues affecting children and youth from alternative care settings globally.

"Child representatives and care leavers from South East Asia have called for increased support for continuing education, psychosocial care, finding jobs and affordable housing in the wake of COVID-19," according to this news article from SOS Children's Villages.

This paper draws upon lessons from SPOON Foundation's work in 17 countries since 2008, summarizing the main nutrition considerations for children in alternative care and offering recommendations on integrating nutrition and feeding practices into alternative care programs. This paper also explores ways that nutrition can support the global movement to ensure every child has family-based care, while meeting the immediate needs of the millions of children currently in all types of alternative care.

Researchers are increasingly using self-report measures of physical, psychological, and sexual violence and neglect for population-based surveys. The current gold-standard measure, the 45-item ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool has been used across the world. This study assesses its adequacy for measuring abuse across countries.

This study aims to elucidate child welfare workers’ resilience and coping styles.

"Survivors of prolonged abuse while in the care of Lambeth Council have called for the failure to report abuse in children's homes to be made a crime," says this article from BBC News.

UNICEF is seeking a senior and well experienced consultant to facilitate the child protection case management situation analysis, including contextually relevant practical recommendations on the development of a national child protection case management framework and system.

UNICEF is seeking an experienced national consultant to work with and support an international consultant in the facilitation of child protection case management situation analysis, including contextually relevant practical recommendations on the development of a national child protection case management framework and system.

REPSSI is seeking nominees for the organization's board of directors - both self-nominations and nominations of your colleagues are enthusiastically welcomed.