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UNICEF is seeking a consultant to support the Inter Agency Child Protection Information Management System Users Group.

The ICSM will be responsible for the management and development of the GTAS Technical Team; the quality assurance of Lumos technical support and ensuring such support is properly documented; the delivery of training and technical support; and in coordination with other colleagues, supporting the overall development of the GTAS Unit.

This paper investigates avoidant attachment, which is characterized by emotional guardedness and reluctance to rely on others for support.

The current study uses a culturally and contextually modified early adolescent version of the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment Inventory (EA-HOME-JP) in Japanese child welfare institutions (CWIs) to provide preliminary data on relevant variables in the caregiving environment that associate with domains of perceived self-competency.

This article looks at the interaction between transnational family relationships, on the one hand, and family-related immigration policies, on the other.

Based on a large‐scale longitudinal study from Norway, this article examines early school leaving between ethnic minority groups and the ethnic majority in the child welfare population.

The recommended interventions in this book is the result of a systematic review of literature conducted through a combination of hand and electronic database searches to select, appraise, extract, synthesis and analyse primary articles to find interventions that work.

This paper serves to illustrate challenges in research on care-leavers and the various ways that research results can be interpreted by drawing on data from a study being conducted in a residential care programme in South Africa.

The participants of the Continental Conference on Access to Justice for Children in Africa titled “Spotlighting the Invisible”, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 8 - 9 May 2018, following up on the 2011 Kampala Conference and its outcomes, have issued a Call to Action "recognizing the adverse and lasting impact that gaps in access to justice have on children in Africa."

The Center for the Study of Social Policy's Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework is hosting a webinar on Thursday, May 10, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT, to discuss a recent paper from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard, “Science to Policy and Practice: 3 Principles to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families.”