This article examines how racial inequality shapes institutional care for adolescents in Brazil and highlights how racial literacy workshops exposed both gaps in practitioners’ understanding and systemic barriers to anti-racist practice. Despite these challenges, the intervention showed promising improvements, underscoring the urgent need to embed racial literacy in public social assistance policies and high-complexity care services to better protect Black adolescents.

This study explores the experiences and challenges of caregivers providing trauma-informed care to foster children in a South African care facility. Findings highlight the emotional and practical difficulties faced by caregivers and emphasize the need for targeted training and support to strengthen their capacity and well-being.

Street-connected children in Ghana face systemic marginalization, requiring comprehensive interventions at the family, community, and policy levels. Based on insights from 12 social workers, this study highlights micro-, mezzo-, and macro-level strategies to reduce the number of street-connected children and support their reintegration into society.

India’s 23.6 million orphaned and abandoned children often rely on overburdened caregivers in child care institutions, where staff shortages and high demand affect quality of care. This study evaluates a capability-building program by Udayan Care and Duke University, showing how strengthening caregivers’ skills, knowledge, and wellbeing can improve outcomes for vulnerable children.

There is still limited research on South African youths aging out of residential care, and there is no established protocol to guide social workers in preparing them for independent living. This study aimed to investigate what elements should be included in a protocol for social workers to effectively prepare youths leaving child and youth care centres (CYCCs).

This report, based on a study across nine countries, examines how to strengthen the community-level social welfare workforce (CLSWW) as a vital but under-resourced part of national child protection systems. It calls for context-specific strategies that clearly define roles and competencies, build capacity, and align with local norms, mechanisms, and resources to enhance child protection outcomes.

This paper provides a comparative analysis of social work professionalization in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore. By examining the different approaches across the countries, policymakers will have examples of practices that have been effective elsewhere and adopt these to suit the context of Malaysia.

This article investigates the image of an ideal foster grandparent as constructed by social workers, drawing upon 24 in-depth interviews with practitioners from foster care agencies in the Czech Republic.

This report by Child’s i Foundation, supported by the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance and the Martin James Foundation, presents findings from consultations with 133 care-experienced children, young adults, and caregivers in Uganda to understand their needs and expectations of social workers. The insights inform new training tools and advocacy efforts to strengthen social work practices, policies, and guidance to better support vulnerable families and care-experienced individuals.

The Strengthening the Social Service Workforce for Family-Based Care project is a two-year project implemented and managed by the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance with technical support from consultants from Child Frontiers and supported b