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.

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 reports on ongoing efforts in Armenia to strengthen child protection and family support systems, highlighting government and partner initiatives aimed at improving care for vulnerable children.

This Podcast explores a major child trafficking case in which families in Singapore may have unknowingly adopted babies from Indonesia who were allegedly trafficked through a criminal network.

This article describes how UNICEF Malaysia welcomes the passage of the Social Work Profession Bill 2026 in the Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives) on 14 July as a significant milestone towards strengthening and professionalizing social work in Malaysia.

The article describes how Catholic nuns in India have helped more than 1,000 orphaned and abandoned children find permanent, loving families through a long-running adoption program.

This article tells the story of adoptive parents in Singapore who, after forming a deep bond with their child, are devastated to learn he may have been trafficked from Indonesia as part of an illegal adoption network.

This study examines the implementation of child assessment standards in alternative care institutions (LKSAs) in Indonesia. Using a mixed-methods approach, it explores how assessment practices support children’s rights, care planning, and the quality of institutional care.

This article explores the lifelong journeys of three intercountry adoptees from India who are searching for their biological mothers and answers about their origins.

Through a brief history of both domestic and intercountry adoption practice, as well as case studies of intercountry adoption abuses in Guatemala, Cambodia, Uganda, and Kenya, this article demonstrates the problems that have resulted from intercountry adoption and the challenges they have posed for the social work profession.