These Standards for Foster Care are available to all stakeholders engaged in the protection, care and support of children where foster care provision may be required. These Standards are intended to guide social workers and other service providers in monitoring foster care services.

This foundational chapter attempts to provide readers with content to assist in their understanding of the characteristics, role, and experiences of kinship elderly caregivers of children affected and/or infected by HIV and AIDS.

This brief - a supplement to the Stop the War on Children 2020: Gender matters report - highlights the situation of children in conflict zones in West and Central Africa with a focus on gender.

This paper presents the achievements and implications of HIV Programme Development Project (HPDP) funded by World Bank on care and support services for OVC in Osun State, Nigeria.

This paper reports on a longitudinal study of young people transitioning out of care and journeying towards young adulthood over a period of five years.

This study determined the perceived effects of prolonged residential care for children in Botswana.

Objectif global: Assurer une assise juridique opérationnelle pour la mise en œuvre de la législation relative à la protection des enfants privés de soins parentaux.

The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the perceptions of orphans and vulnerable children’s parents/guardians about the effectiveness of Future Families’ children programme in Olievenhoutbosch as a way to explore how much they are involved in the process of designing the programme activities and if they perceive the programme as effective in responding to their family needs.

This article explores and presents the voices of children regarding how they experience their participation in multidisciplinary meetings at a child and youth care centre.

This is a qualitative study aimed to explore the need for preparing children ageing out of foster care for independent living in South Africa.