Child Care and Protection Policies

Child care and protection policies regulate the care of children, including the type of support and assistance to be offered, good practice guidelines for the implementation of services, standards for care, and adequate provisions for implementation. They relate to the care a child receives at and away from home.

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University of Nottingham, UK,

This document is a Slovakian language summary brochure of the Manual of Best Practice titled ‘Child Abandonment and its Prevention in Europe,’ specific to child abandonment in Slovakia.

Simon Beck, Phillippe De Vreyer, Sylvie Lambert, Karine Marazyan, and Abla Safir ,

Using a nationally representative household survey conducted in 2006-2007 in Senegal, this study sheds light on the common practice of fostering (confiage) by examining the characteristics of households and individuals involved in fostering, the motivation for fostering and its impact on host households, sending households, and the foster child, with a focus on education, employment and marriage outcomes.

Robert B. McCall - Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development Volume 76, Issue 4,

Abstract

Robert B. Mccall, Marinus H. Van Ijzendoorn, Femmie Juffer, Christina J. Groark, and Victor K. Groza - Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development,

This monograph reviews literature pertaining to children without permanent parents.

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development,

This monograph contains nine chapters that review and discuss the empirical literature on the development of children who have been deprived of their permanent parents

Victor K. Groza, Kelley McCreery Bunkers, Gary N. Gamer - Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development Volume 76, Issue 4,

Utilizing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, this paper from Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development Volume 76, Issue 4 examines critical components and current characteristics of alternative care for children in low‐resource countries.

Elizabeth Palley - Children and Youth Services Review,

This article is based on interviews with 19 child care policy experts including policy advocates, researchers, and funders. 

Government of Rwanda,

This Law is relating to the rights and the protection of the child in Rwanda.

Marie Berlina, Bo Vinnerljunga, Anders Hjernd - Children and Youth Services Review Volume 33, Issue 12 - Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood,

This article, from the Children and Youth Services Review special issue on ‘Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood’ examines the school performance and psychosocial wellbeing of care leavers in Sweden.

Mark E. Courtneya, JoAnn Leeb, Alfred Pereza - Children and Youth Services Review,

Foster youth in the US do not appear to be receiving many forms of help that are called for in federal law. Over one-third did not receive help they would have liked to have received. System factors play a stronger role than individual indicators of need in help receipt. Independent living services should be more widely available and better targeted.