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World Vision is publishing this paper to inform current strategic discussions which seek to ensure that ending violence against children (VAC) remains on the post 2015 global development agenda.
The Guidelines for Kinship Care, Foster Care and Supported Independent Living in Liberia are intended to provide harmonized national guidance for child welfare practitioners in order to improve the quality of family-based alternative care services in Liberia, particularly for children without appropriate care (CWAC).
This report presents the findings of a review of mappings and assessments of the child protection system in 14 countries.
This report presents the findings of a mappings and assessments review of child protection systems in 14 countries including Cambodia.
This report, authored by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, calls for a global strategy to prevent the detention of asylum-seekers and refugees in countries around the world, with an initial focus 10+ "focus countries." Among the Strategy's three main goals is the call to end detention of children, which requires a new legal and policy framework, the implementation of the "best interests" principle, alternative and appropriate reception and care arrangements for children (including foster care), and the provision of age-appropriate information to the child.
This Human Rights Watch report gives a detailed overview of the situation faced by children with disabilities in orphanages in Russia.
Law No. 140 on the special protection of children at risk and of children separated from their parents entered into force on 1 January 2014.
This report from SOS Children’s Villages examines the range of services available to families in Malawi to prevent family separation as well as the administrative measures and national policy frameworks governing these services.
This paper offers a broad overview of some of the main approaches to child protection used internationally. Using examples from Canada, Sweden, Belgium and the Gaza Strip, it offers policy-makers the chance to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches, as well as how these examples might be used to inspire improvements within the Australian context.