In this study, the authors examine the structure and function of professional social workers’ follow-up questions in assessment talk with adoption applicants.

This essay describes the impact of the pandemic on the authors' experiences as Independent Visitors (IVs) for children who are looked-after.

This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork in an Italian reception centre for male ‘unaccompanied minors’. The article examines the political ambivalence of hospitality for young African men as they transition to adulthood and how this is experienced through the intersections of age, gender and race.

This article explores population-level prevalence of Posttraumatic stress disorder for Young Children (PTSD-YC) to test whether application of Alternative Algorithm for PTSD (AA-PTSD) criteria, relative to the DSM-IV PTSD algorithm, increases identification of 5-6 year old children with clinical needs, in both the general population, and among looked-after-children where the risk of mental health issues is greater.

Coram, the UK’s first children’s charity, commissioned YouGov to carry out an online poll of 2,092 UK adults, who were asked questions regarding children in care and care leavers. YouGov provided a breakdown of responses by groups of respondents and Coram's own qualitative and quantitative analysis of the answers follows.

Este informe presenta los hallazgos de una investigación por Amnistía Internacional en casos de sustracciones de menores en España durante los años del régimen franquista (1939- 1975) y hasta entrada ya la década de los noventa.

This report explores how gender-restrictive groups are using child protection rhetoric to manufacture moral panic and mobilize against human rights, and how this strengthens the illiberal politics currently undermining democracies.

This mixed methods research project, involving twenty participating local authorities and eight voluntary organisations from a wide geographic spread across England, was carried out between 2017 and 2019. The study was designed to investigate fathers and their recurring appearance in care proceedings at a macro, meso and micro level, with each element collecting and analysing data for distinct but related research questions.

"One-third of foster carers have said that a lack of structure for their foster children during the Covid-19 pandemic has been a challenge, according to a new survey," says this article from the Irish Times.

The interview data gathered in this study explored young adults’ well-being during the transition period from care to independent living under an English local authority and in Finland.