This scoping review examines how supported visitation in child welfare is defined and practiced, highlighting its role in maintaining parent–child relationships while ensuring emotional safety in complex, trauma-affected contexts. Findings reveal inconsistent implementation, limited focus on children’s experiences, and a lack of relationally grounded approaches, underscoring the need for more coherent, rights-based support for both children and parents.

This article reports on discussions from the Global Technical Financing Forum on Early Childhood Development held in Kigali, Rwanda, where governments, UN agencies, and development partners explored strategies to improve and scale financing for holistic services for young children.

This scoping review examines why individuals and families in Western countries choose to foster or adopt children with disabilities, identifying motivations such as altruism, personal values, commitment to caregiving, and perceived family enrichment. The findings highlight opportunities to strengthen recruitment and support strategies by aligning messaging and services with these motivations to improve care stability and outcomes.

This technical brief highlights parenting support strategies and interventions that can benefit parents and help them create better spaces for children with developmental delays and disabilities to thrive. The brief includes data on children with developmental delays and disabilities and features country examples from around the world.

This Out of the Shadows Index tracks how 60 countries across 6 regions – home to 83% of the world’s children – are preventing and responding to sexual violence against children and adolescents.

Child protection systems in low-resource settings face major challenges due to limited infrastructure, weak data systems, and poor coordination, reducing their ability to identify and respond to risks effectively. This article proposes a data-driven framework using digital technologies and analytics to improve early detection, decision-making, and overall service delivery for vulnerable children.

With an estimated 37-42 million children on the move globally, this publication underscores the urgent need to place children’s rights at the center of migration governance. Drawing on promising practices from countries including Thailand, Jordan, Mexico and Uganda, the report highlights practical, rights-based solutions that address children’s specific vulnerabilities while promoting their protection, development and inclusion.

This narrative review analyzes 161 recent studies across 67 countries on the shift from institutional to family-based care, finding that while most research supports de-institutionalization, it is often limited by small samples, qualitative methods, and weak study designs. It highlights significant evidence gaps and calls for more rigorous, transparent, and replicable research to better inform policy and practice.

In the wake of major disruptions to U.S. and global foreign assistance, the global community faces an urgent question: How do we sustain and strengthen support for children in adversity in a rapidly changing landscape? The Collaborative on Global Children's Issues co-convened a webinar to mark the release of two new reports that respond to this moment.

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Better Care Network, Early Childhood Development Action Network, INSPIRE Implementation Working Group, Moving Minds Alliance and Georgetown University’s Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues are co-convening a webinar for child protection, care, and development stakeholders to share and discuss recommendations to address the impact of U.S. foreign aid cuts on children and their families and sustain progress in the changing landscape.