This book prepares future child welfare professionals to tackle the complex and challenging work associated with responding to child maltreatment.

Este artículo explora las prácticas institucionales que facilitan u obstaculizan la protección de derechos de niños, niñas y adolescentes en el sistema de protección de la niñez en Honduras a través de sus diferentes etapas.

Considering the challenges modern migration crisis has posed on both a practical and theoretical basis, this article takes a thorough look at the protection of unaccompanied minors under international human rights law with the aim to present the main issues that need to be revisited and the areas that require further development.

This article from the Canadian Journal of Family Law finds that an Australian version of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of the United States is feasible and could significantly reduce Indigenous child removals and the break up of Indigenous families and communities in Australia.

This article explores changes in policy and practice in children’s services in the UK over the past 40 years and discusses the thinking that has underpinned them.

Using a human-centered algorithmic design approach, the authors of this study synthesize 50 peer-reviewed publications on computational systems used in the U.S. Child Welfare System (CWS) to assess how they were being developed, common characteristics of predictors used, as well as the target outcomes.

To investigate the challenges faced in addressing the needs of orphans and vulnerable children in Marondera, focus group discussions and interviews were utilised. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data in this study and the data was presented in themes.

This book brings together knowledge of how modern countries in Europe and the United States deal with the issue of errors and mistakes in child protection in a cross-national perspective.

The purpose of the article is to analyze the approaches developed in the legal doctrine to understanding the forms of placement of children deprived of parental care and upbringing, and also to outline a vision of how to overcome orphanhood in Ukraine through the introduction of both legalized family forms of placement of such children, which are prioritized over residential forms of upbringing and the unregulated ones.

These Standards for Foster Care are available to all stakeholders engaged in the protection, care and support of children where foster care provision may be required. These Standards are intended to guide social workers and other service providers in monitoring foster care services.