This ethnographic study examines caregiving practices in Indian Child Care Institutions, focusing on caregiver–child interactions, emotional responsiveness, and institutional influences. It draws on observations and interviews to provide a contextually grounded understanding of caregiving dynamics.

Juveniles in residential care systems have high rates of suicidal ideation (SI). This study aims to expand knowledge of the prevalence and stability of SI, as well its associated factors among young adult care leavers in Switzerland.

This article examines how child protection workers in Chile interpret and respond to violence from children in residential care, finding that such violence is often normalized and attributed primarily to children’s trauma rather than to systemic or organizational factors. It highlights how this framing obscures the role of structural issues—such as inadequate training and staffing—and calls for more comprehensive prevention strategies that address both individual and institutional conditions.

This webinar aims to reflect upon, discuss, and evaluate the implementation of Indonesia's National Standards for Child Care fifteen years after the issuance of Minister of Social Affairs Regulation No. 30/HUK/2011. The event will bring together key stakeholders from government institutions, international organizations, civil society, practitioners, and academics to exchange experiences, lessons learned, and future perspectives on strengthening child care systems in Indonesia.

This article highlights the launch of a children’s book, Kannella, designed to support children in alternative care by helping them understand and process experiences of trauma, loss, and change.

This policy brief demonstrates how UNICEF's Better Start and Better Care frameworks complement one another to strengthen child wellbeing through integrated early childhood development and child protection systems in Ukraine. It explains that Better Start focuses on universal and targeted services for children from pregnancy to age six, while Better Care provides progressive support for children at risk of family separation or living in alternative care.

Kinship placements are associated with achieving permanency but “progress moves” into kinship settings may disrupt stable placements, which are also beneficial. This study used event history models to compare rates of permanency among children transitioning between kinship and non-kinship foster placements immediately after being taken into care in the United States.

This brief presents the rationale, service model, and estimated costs for scaling up Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) services in Ukraine under the National Strategy to Ensure Every Child's Right to Grow Up in a Family Environment. It explains how multidisciplinary, family-centred services support children under four years of age with developmental delays, disabilities, or risks of developmental impairment by strengthening parental capacity and promoting children's inclusion in family and community life.

This technical brief examines how the meaningful participation of children and young people with lived experience (PWLE) in alternative care can strengthen child protection systems, improve service quality, and influence policy reform. It presents international examples from Ireland, Scotland, the United Kingdom, Moldova, Kenya, Romania, Albania, and the United States, illustrating how children and care leavers contribute to individual case planning, service design, regulatory monitoring, advocacy, and national care reform.

This case study examines the supervision system for the social work workforce in the United Kingdom, highlighting governance arrangements, professional standards, implementation practices, and lessons relevant to strengthening supervision in Ukraine. The publication describes supervision as a legally mandated and reflective practice embedded within employer accountability systems and professional development, rather than solely a performance management mechanism.