The IRC is seeking a Child Protection Case Management Specialist to support with the development of specialised capacity building resources and competency tools. 

Rachel James, a 21 year-old woman from Somerset, UK, has taken on the care of a brother and sister under the age of two after hearing that emergency, short-term foster carers were needed during the pandemic, according to this article from BBC News. She is believed to be the youngest foster carer in the area.

This study reported comprises an evaluation of an Attachment-Centred Parenting (ACP) six session, evidence-based programme developed by the authors.

This paper examines the discretionary reasoning of the judiciary in three jurisdictions, England, Germany and Norway, in cases deciding whether a newborn child is safe with her parents or intervention is necessary.

In this discussion paper, the authors propose a novel and pragmatic conceptual framework for the protection of vulnerable children in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Focusing on accounts by women who have children taken into care, this paper reports on a socio-legal case study in England, investigating the life experiences of nine mothers, whose children have been made subject to care orders under the Children Act 1989.

This paper addresses the conceptualization of ‘outcomes’ for care experienced people through an in-depth longitudinal study of 75 young adults in Denmark, England and Norway.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether group-based training improves foster carer self-efficacy.

"The number of children in care in England and Wales who have restrictions placed on their freedom has tripled in the last two years," says this article from BBC News.

"Survivors of prolonged abuse while in the care of Lambeth Council have called for the failure to report abuse in children's homes to be made a crime," says this article from BBC News.