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Caroline S. Archambault, Joost de Laat, Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu - World Development,

This paper combines qualitative research with three micro data sets and finds that the presence of urban basic services is importantly linked to child residence of migrant parents. 

Working Group on children without parental care-subgroup of NGO Group for CRC,

This briefing note, produced by an Interagency Working Group on children without parental care, was designed to highlight the special vulnerability of children with disabilities who are in alternative care and to encourage members of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Committee to consider the potential added value of reference to the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children.

BCN ,

Care related sections of the Government of the Russian Federation's fourth and fifth combined report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (dated 3rd June 2011).

Dr. Charles H. Zeanah, M.D., MS. Carole Shauffer, J.D., and Dr. Mary Dozier, Ph.D. - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,

This article focuses on a central problem of foster care, which is that it is often not developmentally informed.

Daniela Papi TEDx Oxbridge ,

In this TED Talk, Daniela Papi - founder of PEPY, a Cambodian youth leadership organization, and PEPY Tours, a development education travel company - speaks of the ways that international volunteering can be harmful to children and communities and urges volunteers and organizations to rethink “voluntourism.”

Kelley Bunkers and Karen Rotabi ,

Helping families and their kin develop care plans for orphaned and vulnerable children was the objective of the family group conferencing (FGC) training that took place in Guatemala City from July 10-12, 2012. This family preservation approach for developing strategies to prevent the institutionalization of children emphasizes the strengths of families and their capacity to solve their own problems and develop their own care plans.

Ministry of Social Development, Government of Lesotho,

A document containing the policy for foster care and adoption in Lesotho.

Ministry of Social Development, Government of Lesotho,

This document contains the Procedures and Practice Guidelines for Foster Care and Adoption in Lesotho. 

Republic of Zambia Ministry of Health,

This document outlines an overarching National Health Policy for Zambia.

Nick Axford, Delbert S. Elliott, Michael Little,

This article describes the Blueprints database of evidence-based programmes (EBPs) and its potential application in children's services in European countries.