Permanency Planning

Permanency planning is the process of assessing and preparing a child for long term care when in out-of-home placements such as kinship, foster care or institutions. A care plan must centre on what is in the child’s best interests, and therefore requires an ongoing assessment of the child and her needs. A guardian may be appointed as a further protection of a child’s rights. 

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Doncel, FLACSO, UNICEF Argentina,

La investigación es un trabajo en conjunto entre DONCELGUÍA EGRESO y 

LeeAnne Dewar, Deborah Goodman - Child Welfare Institute, Children’s Aid Society of Toronto ,

This literature review examines literature on the best practices for youth aging out of care that indicate successful outcomes for them as adults. 

Evgenia Stepanova & Simon Hackett ,

This paper presents the findings of a survey of Russian care leavers. The emphasis is on care leavers' experiences of the Russian institutional care system, and the issues that impacted on their postcare transition to adulthood.

Suellen Murray & Jim Goddard, Australian Social Work, 2014 Vol. 67, No. 1, 102–117,

In this review, the authors highlight evidence drawn from research in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, and the United States, on the impact of growing up in care beyond the early twenties.

Eddy J. Walakira, Eric A. Ochen, Paul Bukuluki and Sue Alllan,

Infant Mental Health Journal has published an important Special Issue on Global Research, Practice, and Policy Issues in the Care of Infants and Young Children at Risk. This article describes a model of care for abandoned and neglected infants in need of urgent physical, social, and medical support as implemented by the Child's i Foundation, an international, nongovernmental organization operating in Uganda. 

Marc Winokur, Amy Holtan, Keri E. Batchelder,

This systematic review published by the Campbell Collaboration reviewed controlled experimental and quasi experimental studies in which children removed from the home for maltreatment and subsequently placed in kinship care were compared with children placed in non-kinship foster care for child welfare outcomes in the domains of well-being, permanency, or safety.

Dr Helen Baños Smith,

This important report documents a 22-month longitudinal study of the reintegration of children in residential care in Moldova.

SOS Children’s Villages, Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland, University of Malawi,

This report is based on a synthesis of eight assessments of the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (“the Guidelines”) in Benin, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Mark Courtney, Robert J. Flynn, Joël Beaupré,

This paper provides overview of the US and Canada in-care system, noting certain differences and similarities between the two systems. Estimates of the number of children in care in Canada and data on children in the US foster care systems is also provided.

Getnet Tadele, Desta Ayode, Woldekidan Kifle,

This assessment conducted by FHI 360, with support from Ethiopia's Ministry of Women, Youth and Children Affairs (MoWYCA) and the OAK Foundation aimed to generate evidence about formal community and family- based alternative child care services and service providing agencies in Ethiopia, with a particular focus on magnitude, quality and quality-assurance mechanisms.