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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Mariam Adepeju Abdulraheem-Mustapha - Child Justice Administration in Africa,

This chapter from the boom Child Justice Administration in Africa examines the development of the child justice system in South Africa. The empirical findings in this book revealed the models put in place for alternative care of children in need of care and protection, which the author believes were hindered by inadequate budgetary allocations and could have been recorded in the administration of child justice in South Africa.

Matthew Gibson - Families, Relationships and Societies,

Given that research identifies parental experiences of shame and humiliation in the child protection process, this article reports on a qualitative study that investigated how and why parents experienced such emotions within the English system.

Philip Mendes, Samone McCurdy - Journal of Social Work,

This article uses a content analysis methodology to critically examine and compare the findings of six recent Australian child protection inquiries (five at state and territory level and one Commonwealth) in relation to their discrete sections on leaving care.

Ron Haskins, Kenneth A. Dodge, and Deborah Daro - The Future of Children,

In this brief, Ron Haskins, Kenneth A. Dodge, and Deborah Daro call for a system of psychosocial care for young families in the US, highlighting the the Family Connects program which aims to reach every family with a newborn child in a given community through a system that combines home visiting by trained nurses; community alignment through a directory of services to connect families to the resources they need; and data and monitoring through an electronic data system that acts as a family-specific psychosocial and educational record.

Princeton University and the Brookings Institution,

This volume explores universal social programs designed to serve entire communities as they move toward achieving population impact in reducing child maltreatment, strengthening parental capacity, and improving infant health and development.

Signe Hald Andersen - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study tests whether an expansion of the Danish aftercare scheme in 2001 affects later outcomes of foster care alumni.

Francesca Meloni & Rachel Humphris - Journal of Refugee Studies,

This paper asks how state parental responsibility towards unaccompanied minors is given meaning, and with what consequences, for both frontline workers and unaccompanied minors alike?

Amy Huey-Ling Shee - Taiwan and International Human Rights,

This chapter aims to review how the CRC has been integrated into Taiwan’s laws and social practices since its promulgation in 1989.

Jacob P. Gross & Jennifer Geiger - Former Foster Youth in Postsecondary Education,

This chapter will help the reader to understand the design and outcomes of the foster care system in the USA.

Inga Narbutaité Aflaki & Matthias Freise - Journal of Refugee Studies,

The article examines from a comparative perspective how Sweden and Germany reacted to the unprecedented increase in unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) in 2015. By illustrating the reactions of two countries, the study shows that an unprecedented wave of refugees/asylum seekers can trigger both more incremental, adaptive and drastic transformative policy changes.