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This article, in Dutch, features an interview with Patricia Nieuwenhuizen of Better Care Network Netherlands on the campaign to stop orphanage tourism.

Sous la supervision du Spécialiste en charge de la protection de l’enfant P3, en collaboration étroite avec les collègues du bureau et tous les partenaires, il/elle sera responsable de planifier, appuyer la mise en œuvre, le suivi et l’évaluation de toutes les problématiques liés à la protection des enfants afin d’en assurer l’efficacité et l’efficience.

Family for Every Child conducted a scoping study to understand how social norms around gender influence how we care for boys affected by sexual violence. The study is now complete and Family for Every Child has secured funding to implement primary research to further develop their local understanding in these areas. Family for Every Child are now looking for a Consultant to support them.

UNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Specialist (Violence and Exploitation) in Senegal. 

Bridging Two Worlds provides teachers, school administrators and counsellors in Canada with the knowledge and practical resources to deliver more informed and culturally responsive career development and guidance to newcomer and refugee youth from Kindergarten to Grade 12. 

In this piece, Robert Halfon, the Chair of the UK Parliament's Education Select Committee, writes that England's foster care system is failing vulnerable children.

An indigenous woman in Ottawa, Canada is preparing a home birthing kit in the fear that her newborn will be taken into the Child and Family Services system if she goes into the hospital to deliver, according to this article from CTV News. 

"The Kaduna State Government has banned fostering and adoption of children due to abuses by orphanage homes in the state, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Hafsat Baba, has said."

This piece from TTG Media, a travel publication, explains why visiting orphanages in detrimental to children, families, and communities and how travel agencies can help end orphanage tourism.

This article, based on a unique mixed‐methods study of social work interventions in the UK and the influence of poverty, highlights a narrative from practitioners that argues that, as many poor families do not harm their children, it is stigmatizing to discuss a link between poverty and child abuse and neglect.