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.

This statement from UNICEF Tajikistan announces and welcomes the government’s adoption of its first-ever National Programme on the Protection of Child Rights (2026–2030), describing it as a major step toward strengthening the country’s child protection system.

This article examines compassion as a relational institutional ethos within alternative residential child care in Nepal. Drawing on qualitative case study research conducted in a children’s home operating in collaboration with local and international non-governmental organisations, the study explores how Tibetan Buddhist ethical principles intersect with contemporary safeguarding and governance frameworks.

This article examines how recent war in Iran has disrupted and reshaped the country’s child welfare system, forcing authorities to rethink long-standing institutional approaches to caring for orphaned and abandoned children. As violence threatened hospitals and orphanages, the state welfare system began rapidly placing infants and vulnerable children into private homes, including with foster families and single women, marking a significant shift toward more family-based care arrangements.

This webinar—hosted by the Transitioning Residential Care Working Group under the Transforming Children's Care Collaborative—brought together practitioners from Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Eastern and Southern Africa to explore how social norms shape efforts to transition away from residential care and how they can be effectively addressed.

This paper traces the evolution of orphan care in India from traditional family and community-based support to formal child care institutions, highlighting key legal and policy reforms and ongoing challenges in institutional care. Using Manipur as a case example, it emphasizes the need to strengthen family-based care, social inclusion, monitoring, and child protection systems to improve outcomes for orphaned and vulnerable children.

This article examines the role of kinship care in Thailand, exploring its scale, drivers, and implications within the broader context of family-based care reform and deinstitutionalisation. It highlights the need to strengthen formal kinship care systems while addressing socioeconomic factors that contribute to unsupported informal care arrangements.

This study explores the transition experiences of young adults with mild intellectual disabilities leaving residential care in Türkiye. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, it examines how care leavers navigate independence, relationships, employment, and access to support after leaving care.

This randomized trial in Thailand evaluated a blended parenting programme combining in-person sessions and messaging support, finding no reduction in child maltreatment at one-month follow-up. Results suggest the need to refine programme design and target higher-risk families, as well as assess longer-term impacts to better understand effectiveness.