Under the supervision of the Regional Advisor Monitoring and Evaluation and in close collaboration with the Child Protection team, the consultant will be responsible for working with Country Offices to improve evidence and data generation on key child protection issues, including but not limited to relevant SDG and UNICEF Strategic Plan indicators related to access to justice for children, children in alternative care, data on violence against children, including gender-based violence, and child marriage. 

In an explorative manner, the current study investigates variables that influence psychological evaluators’ recommendations in child protection cases.

This chapter provides an overview of the German child protection system.

This chapter aims at providing an overview on legislation, organizational structure and processes of child protection in Switzerland.

This chapter draws on the policy analysis developed for the research project Hestia, which compares policies and responses to child abuse and neglect in England, Germany and the Netherlands.

This chapter describes the child protection system in France.

The aim of the systematic review described in this article was to determine the outcome of child maltreatment in long-term childcare and the scope of the evidence base in this area.

In this study, the life stories of four foster mothers of victims of maternal sexual abuse were collected.

This report from Human Rights Watch examines the arbitrary procedures and inordinate delays in determining that unaccompanied migrant children in France are under age 18, the first step to entry into the French child protection system.

This study focuses on workers’ rationales in placement decisions in child abuse cases in the Netherlands.