“Current Aftercare Practices” (CAP) is a research study designed to look at the support and services received by Care Leavers (CLs) from the objective lens of an ‘Aftercare Quality Index’(AQI), calculated by using the scores within eight domains. This report covers a total of 55 CLs from Delhi, comprising of 30 males and 25 females, from both Government and NGO-run Child Care Institutions (CCIs). It also includes data from 10 stakeholders, which includes experts, practitioners and duty bearers, working in the field of child protection in Delhi.

Family for Every Child is looking for a Knowledge Management Coordinator to strengthen the Alliance’s capacity to transform information into knowledge, which both informs their own joint work and is used to evidence impact, and influence others. 

This opinion piece by Vageshwari Deswal in the Times of India makes the case for promoting and strengthening foster care in India.

Child rights activists in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu have lauded the Australian government's recent inclusion of orphanage trafficking in their Modern Slavery Act and the country's efforts to cut off support to overseas orphanages, according to this article from the Times of India.

To ensure protection of children from institutional abuse, there is an urgent need to review the existing laws in terms of their efficacy to protect children and feasibility in implementation. The present study suggests possible solutions, by trying to understand standardized and effective models of care systems and mechanisms.

"A total number of 1,265 children have been reported to have died in specialised adoption agencies (SAAs) across states between April 2014 to January 31, 2019," according to this article from the Times of India.

This study documents and evaluates the harm prevention work carried out by the children’s rights nonprofit Aangan Trust since late 2015 in Konia, a peri-urban slum area in Varanasi, a large city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

The licenses of 16 Child Care Institutions (CCI) in Jharkhand, India have been revoked "following a report submitted by the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) with a recommendation to take action against 31 such shelter homes in the State," according to this article from the New Indian Express.

This Virtual Companion Tool Kit for child protection committees at the village (VCPCs) is a knowledge kit aimed at strengthening community-led child protection mechanisms.

This report, which is also the fifth in the series, reflects on how children and the realisation of their rights continue to challenge our conscience even today.