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This article from PBS News Hours describes the concerns of child welfare experts that the COVID-19 crisis will lead to higher rates of child abuse in the US.

In this study, the authors analysed data from 27 interviews with parents whose children were removed by child welfare and four focus groups totalling 18 staff from a parent education service provider.

This paper develops understandings of how being publicly identified and consequently labelled as ‘looked after’ can have damaging consequences for young people, particularly in how they are perceived by their peers in the context of schooling.

In this study, the authors analysed data from 27 interviews with parents whose children were removed by child welfare and four focus groups totalling 18 staff from a parent education service provider.

Through the lens of a care framework, the present study aims to explore service providers' perceptions of families caring for CWD in resource‐poor settings in South Africa.

This comparative analysis will illuminate how injustices continue to be reproduced, focusing on the child welfare system, as part of the devastating effects that colonization has on Aboriginal peoples, but also as evidence of colonization being reproduced through current discriminatory legislation and practices.

This paper explores the experiences of Victorian foster and kinship carers accessing timely health assessment and ongoing healthcare for a child placed in their care; identifying barriers and enablers.

crisis, including visits by most family members," says this article from the Irish Times.

In this blog post, the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance describes how the social service workforce is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights relevant resources and tools.

This brief from UNICEF outlines the urgent action needed to put migrant and displaced children at the forefront of UNICEF’s preparedness, prevention and response to COVID19 – to ensure health, safety, and protection for all.