The purpose of this toolkit is to guide participatory, national level analyses of the social service workforce.

The objective of this paper is to examine the situation of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in existing alternative care systems and explore the treatment of OVC in these systems.

This article uses Official Information Act and publicly available data to examine recent trends of children in contact with the Aotearoa New Zealand child protection system. It discusses these trends with reference to child protection policy reforms, and an inequalities perspective.

This report presents data on children at risk and separated from their parents in Moldova.

This report - prepared for the European Commission by Applica and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), in close collaboration with Eurochild and Save the Children - provides a first mapping of the situation across the 28 Member States of the EU outlining the situation in relation to children, particularly the four target groups (TGs) of disadvantaged children (children in institutions, children with disabilities, children of recent migrants and refugees, and children living in precarious family situations) as well as an indication of the key issues in relation to children’s access to the five policy areas (PAs): housing, healthcare, nutrition, early childhood education and care, and education.

The national report on the State of Children in Nepal, 2019 includes child related information - Constitutional and legal provisions, policy, programmatic efforts and results in line with the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

This chapter from South African Child Gauge 2018 describes the demographics of children's household living arrangements in South Africa, including details on orphaned children.

This statistics publication from the UK Department for Education provides information about looked after children in England for the year ending 31 March 2018.

This Annie E. Casey Foundation brief, which utilizes the most comprehensive data set ever collected across all 50 states of the US, fills in key details about the lives of young people who have experienced foster care.

This report has two aims: (1) examine how well African governments are delivering on their promises and commitments to children and (2) provide a comprehensive, quantitative and qualitative view of the current realities and trends in the state of child wellbeing in Africa, and their implications for the future.