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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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.

The childcare and early learning experiences of children in out-of-home care: What does the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study tell us?

Katie Page, Christie Robertson - Department of Family and Community Services (NSW), 22 Dec 2016

This Evidence to Action Note outlines key findings related to the childcare and early learning experiences of a group of children in out-of-home care (OOHC) in New South Wales aged 9 months to 5 years, drawing on the first interview with their carers for the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS).

Report of The Network Meeting of National Statistical Offices: Leaving No Child Behind

TransMonEE, 01 Nov 2016

This document summarizes the content of the 6-7 October 2016 Network Meeting of National Statistical Offices. The event comprised of a number of presentations on topics related to the SDGs and data on children in alternative care.

Evaluation Brief: Evaluating Systems and Organizational Change in Child Welfare Settings

James Bell Associates on behalf of the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, 31 Oct 2016

This brief explores challenges and strategies for evaluating systems and organizational change in US child welfare settings.