Residential Care

Residential care refers to any group living arrangement where children are looked after by paid staff in a specially designated facility. It covers a wide variety of settings ranging from emergency shelters and small group homes, to larger-scale institutions such as orphanages or children’s homes. As a general rule, residential care should only be provided on a temporary basis, for example while efforts are made to promote family reintegration or to identify family based care options for children. In some cases however, certain forms of residential care can operate as a longer-term care solution for children.

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Claire Cody - ECPAT International,

This report starts to collate evidence on what appears to be important to children who have experienced sexual exploitation.

JaeRan Kim - Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services,

This study explored the experiences of adoptive parents who chose to place their intercountry adopted child in out-of-home care due to the child's disability. 

Hy V. Huynh - Clemson University,

This study explored the extent to which components of quality of care predicted psychosocial well-being of orphaned and separated children (OSC), as well as the extent to which these components of quality of care and demographic factors moderated the associations between care settings and psychosocial well-being of orphaned and separated children (OSC).

Karleen Gwinner - Children and Youth Services Review,

The objective of this paper is to scope the context of the problem of children going missing from out-of-home care in Australia and to distinguish what has been and needs to be researched. 

Kathryn L. Humphreys, Charles A. Nelson, Nathan A. Fox, and Charles H. Zeanah - Development and Psychopathology,

This study examines signs of reactive attachment disorder and disinhibited social engagement disorder at age 12 years in 111 children who were abandoned at or shortly after birth and subsequently randomized to care as usual or to high-quality foster care, as well as in 50 comparison children who were never institutionalized. 

Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation, UNICEF, USAID,

This mapping significantly advances the current knowledge of the state of institutionalization of Cambodian children. 

Paula Rabaey - International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation,

This literature review looks at the most current interventions on safe feeding practices for children with neuromotor disabilities who cannot feed themselves.

Williamson, K., Gupta, P., Gillespie, L.A., Shannon, H. and Landis, D. – Oxfam,

This systematic review examines the impact of protection interventions on unaccompanied and separated children, during the period of separation, in humanitarian crises.

Marjan Mohammadzadeh, Hamidin Awang, Hayati Kadir Shahar, Suriani Ismail – Community Mental Health Journal,

This study aimed to assess the prevalence and risk factors of depression, anxiety, stress and low self-esteem among institutional Malaysian adolescents.

Disability Rights International,

DRI’s main finding is that survivors of the fire at Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción face immediate danger – including detention in other institutions where they face continued segregation and abuse.