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This resource compiles critical data from a variety of sources on children, youth, and families who came in contact with the US child welfare system in federal fiscal year (FY) 2017.

This paper analyzes the United States of America (U.S). House Resolution 1409 (H.R.1409) also referred to as the “Assistance for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in Developing Countries Act of 2005 (AOVC).”

This article discusses the use of Ubuntu theory in social work with children in Africa.

"In each of the past four years, 1,000 or more immigrant children who arrived at the southern U.S. border without their parents have reported being sexually abused while in government custody," says this article from NPR, citing federal records that have recently been released.

To ensure protection of children from institutional abuse, there is an urgent need to review the existing laws in terms of their efficacy to protect children and feasibility in implementation. The present study suggests possible solutions, by trying to understand standardized and effective models of care systems and mechanisms.

The Research Officer will be responsible for delivering research programme and activities ensuring high-quality delivery of ‘evidence for impact’.

The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the interactions between children and their siblings in an institutional shelter in Brazil.

This study utilized administrative data that reviewed child welfare cases in a Midwestern state in the U.S. to examine interactions between teamwork and parent engagement associated with the permanency of children in out-of-home care.

The objective of this study was to examine prenatal care among women with a history of having a child placed in out-of-home care, and whether their care differed from care among women who did not.

"Indigenous newborns and babies less than one year old [in Western Australia] are being removed from their parents and placed into out-of-home care at increased rates," according to this article from the Guardian.