On the 24th September Better Care Network and the CPC Learning Network organized a one day symposium entitled The State of the Evidence on Children’s Care at McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, New York University.
The symposium topics were clustered around three specific areas of issues related to children’s care:
- Efforts to measure trends in families and children’s care and living arrangements;
- Initiatives to measure the impact of policies and programs to strengthen families and to ensure children’s ability to be raised in a family environment; and,
- Measurement of situations and outcomes concerning children outside of family care and children in alternative care arrangements.
The symposium brought together a number of leading academics, policy makers and practitioners involved in the development or implementation of key initiatives to better measure issues of children’s care at country, regional or international levels. The symposium provided an important opportunity for collaboration and learning across initiatives to help those working to strengthen care for children to develop a more informed and cohesive picture of the research agenda on this critical aspect of children’s protection and well-being. aken together, the symposium’s presentations and ensuing discussions represent some of the most recent learning on children’s care issues, and the organizers will collate the symposium’s proceedings in a special issue of a relevant academic journal.
For more information about the Symposium, please visit the Key Initiatives page.