Nigeria

In this webinar, speakers from 3 NGOs will present on and discuss the care implications of COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic on street-affected children, including family reunification, the role informal care has played and how governments have been addressing street-connected children's needs.

The current exploratory study examined the associations of children’s attachment security, parental sensitivity, and child inhibitory control with reported and observed indiscriminate friendliness (IF) in 60 family-reared, never-institutionalized foster children.

This study examined quality of care from the foster parent's perspective and associated characteristics.

In this article, the authors propose a definition of child well-being that draws on the economic literature pertaining to skill formation and human capital.

"A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has until mid-July to release migrant children in family detention centers, citing COVID-19 concerns at these facilities," says this article from Texas Public Radio.

In this study the authors examined the relative contributions of maternal versus paternal criminal offending or mental health problems in relation to the time to the offspring’s first report to child protection services, or first placement in out of home care (OOHC), using administrative records for a population sample of 71,661 children.

Using a phenomenological research design, this study delves into the motivations and challenging experience of foster carers in South-Kivu.

The goal of this paper was to conduct a review of studies from 2008 to 2019 that evaluated community‐based caregiver or family interventions to support the mental health of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in sub‐Saharan Africa, across four domains: (a) study methodology, (b) cultural adaptation and community participation, (c) intervention strategies, and (d) effects on child mental health.

Guided by emotional security theory, the authors of this study explored how child and context-related factors were associated with heterogeneity in young foster children’s organized patterns of fear response to distress.

This research set out to capture the ways in which adaptations were made by UK local authorities in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. This report is based on the experiences of 15 local authority children’s social care (CSC) departments that volunteered to participate in the research and whose views were captured between late May and early June 2020.