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This Social Service Workforce Week, join the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance and the Better Care Network (BCN) for a webinar to explore progress, successes and challenges in global efforts to strengthen the social service workforce for family care and care system reform.  

The biennial Together for Families Conference is a unique virtual event that connects various stakeholders from across the globe in the Family Support and Strengthening Field to focus on best and promising practice for supporting families’ advancement. 

Muluka-Anne Miti-Drummond, Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism, presented her report "Children with albinism and the right to family life" during the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on 21 October, 2024.

This thematic brief helps government policy and decision-makers understand the essential role of the social service workforce and how to strengthen that workforce in line with their national commitments to care reform and regional and global conventions. It includes high level guidance, recommendations and practical examples from diverse contexts for consideration when developing, supporting and strengthening the social service workforce.

This briefing book, prepared by the Inter-Parliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking, serves as a practical guide for legislators on how to--through a combination of global partnerships and domestic action--work together to educate, advocate and legislate to end orphanage trafficking.   

Samoa, a member of the Commonwealth, announced that it will host the 2024 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in October 2024 on the theme "One Resilient Common Future: Transforming our Common Wealth".

Bune Practici de Asistență Parentală Profesionistă pentru Copiii cu Nevoi Complexe: Rezultatele analizei preliminare a literaturii de specialitate pentru pregătirea proiectului pilot privind asistența parentală profesionistă specializată în Republica Moldova rezumă cele mai bune practici internaționale în domeniul asistenței parentale profesioniste specializate,  și oferă perspective și recomandări esențiale  pentru dezvoltarea și extinderea asistenței parentale profesioniste specializate în Republica Moldova.

This report summarizes international best practices of specialized foster care and provides critical insights and recommendations for developing and scaling specialized foster care in Moldova.

“When we approach the family holistically and we use case management tools in matching challenges and problems of the family with the available tools then this will benefit the child,” Roman Zhukovskyi, World Bank Social Protection Specialist, shares learnings regarding the importance of social protection to enable care reform and the role of case management in ensuring effective social protection.