Data and Monitoring Tools

Monitoring and research are essential processes in ensuring the relevance and effectiveness of programs, and the scope and type of service provision. They are integral components of analysis, strategic planning, and implementation for government and non-governmental organisations seeking to effect change, support or provide services.

Monitoring is an on-going process of gathering information e.g. statistics and tracking inputs and outputs, enabling the evaluation of what is working, and providing a mechanism for accountability. Combined with research, it facilitates the planning of improved resource allocation and service delivery. Research and monitoring can also help raise awareness of the gravity of a situation, both nationally and internationally. It should help convince those who are putting time, energy and money into supporting programmes that their efforts are worthwhile and should be continued.

Results of monitoring and evaluation should be fed directly back into programmes to correct weaknesses and improve performance. The outcomes of research and monitoring should also help improve child care policies. Results can be used to inform future programme design, prompting a decision to replicate an effective intervention in other areas or to discontinue an intervention because it is expensive and not making any beneficial changes.

The literature in this section provides statistical data on vulnerable children from a wide range of sources, as well as guidance and examples of data collection, indicators, analysis, and research methods regarding issues relating to vulnerable children.

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Child Abuse and Neglect in Uganda

David Kaawa-Mafigiri & Eddy Walakira - Makerere University Dept. of Social Work and Social Administration; Child Maltreatment: Contemporary Issues in Research and Policy, 20 Jan 2017

Bringing together cross-disciplinary expertise, this volume addresses a vast range of topics related to child abuse and neglect in Uganda.

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National estimation of children in residential care institutions in Cambodia: A modelling study

Lindsay Stark, Beth L Rubenstein, Kimchoeun Pak, Sok Kosal - BMJ Open, 16 Jan 2017

The primary objective of this study was to collect baseline data on the number of children living in residential care institutions in Cambodia.

Briefing Paper 003: The prevalence and characteristics of children growing up with relatives in the UK: Characteristics of children living with relatives in Scotland

Dinithi Wijedasa - Hadley Centre for Adoption & Foster Care Studies, University of Bristol , 2017

This briefing paper, which is the third in a series, provides a brief overview of the characteristics of the children growing up with relatives in Scotland.

Lesotho DHS 2014: Children’s Care and Living Arrangements

Garazi Zulaika and Florence Martin - Better Care Network, 2017

This country brief is part of a series that aims to provide an analysis of children’s living and care arrangements according to the latest available data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) or Multiple Indicators Cluster Surveys (MICS) at the time of publication.

Children Out of Parental Care in Russia: What We Can Learn from the Statistics

Biryukova Svetlana & Sinyavskaya Oxana - Journal of Social Policy Studies, 2017

The paper presents a detailed analysis of the Russian official statistics for orphans and children placed out of parental care.

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Undertaking a connected person/family and friends assessment

Paul Adams - CoramBAAF, 2017

Undertaking a connected person / family and friends assessment is designed to help social workers to manage and complete a comprehensive and evidence-based assessment of connected people / family and friends who wish to foster or be special guardians to a known child or children.

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Mozambique DHS 2011: Children’s Care and Living Arrangements

Garazi Zulaika and Florence Martin - Better Care Network, 2017

This series of country briefs aims to provide an analysis of children’s living and care arrangements according to the latest available data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) or Multiple Indicators Cluster Surveys (MICS) at the time of publication.

Romania: Children in Public Care 2014

Manuela Sofia Stănculescu (main author), Vlad Grigoraș, Monica Marin, Cătălina Iamandi-Cioinaru, Emil Teșliuc, Georgiana Blaj (Neculau), Bogdan Corad, VoichiŃa Pop, Andreea Trocea - The World Bank and UNICEF, 2017

This book presents the results of this research on more than 52,000 children placed in public care in Romania (in special protection) who receive family or residential-type protection services as well as on the children at risk of separation from their families from the source communities.

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A World that Cares: How to Support Children without Parental Care through the Sustainable Development Goals

Gillian Huebner - SOS Children's Villages , 2017

This briefing describes how the needs of children without parental care can be addressed through five of the SDGs: no poverty (1); quality education (4); decent work and economic growth (8); reduced inequalities (10); and peace, justice and strong institutions (16).

Briefing Paper 002: The Prevalence and Characteristics of Children Growing up with Relatives in the UK: Characteristics of children living with relatives in Wales

Dinithi Wijedasa - Hadley Centre for Adoption & Foster Care Studies, University of Bristol , 2017

This briefing paper, which is the second in a series, provides a brief overview of the characteristics of the children growing up with relatives in Wales.