Uganda

This study sought to investigate the lived experiences of care leavers from institutional care facility in Botswana.

The objective of this study was to investigate whether men and women who were looked-after (in public care) or adopted as children are at increased risk of adverse psychological and social outcomes in adulthood.

This study addresses three key research questions: (1) How do older youth in foster care define their personal permanency goals? (2) How much progress have these youth made in achieving their personal permanency goals and other aspects of relational permanency, and how does this vary by gender, race, and age? and (3) What transition-related outcomes are associated with relational permanency achievement? 

This study uses nationally representative data collected in 2011–2012 in Moldova (N = 1601) and Georgia (N = 1193) to investigate how children’s health associates with five transnational characteristics: migrant and return-migrant household types, parental migration and parental divorce, maternal and/or paternal migration and caregiver’s identity, the duration of migration, and remittances.

This article from the Guardian shines a light on the treatment of children with autism in France, describing how the outdated system often places children into psychiatric institutions and removes them from the care of their parents.

This article from Vice highlights the need for more Native foster carers in the United States and the issues that arise when Native children are placed in the care of non-Native foster parents.

This report from the Child Protection Area of Responsibility (CP AoR) highlights the child protection needs and responses in Syria and includes objectives and targets for continued child protection interventions and strategies.

The House of Assembly of the State of Kaduna in Nigeria has passed into law a new Child Protection and Welfare Bill, according to this article from Channels Television.

This inspection by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration in the UK examined how the Home Office considers the ‘best interests’ of unaccompanied asylum seeking children.

This article reports the findings of a multi-country study of medical professionals' perceptions and evaluations of children  in three Eastern European countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova).