This summit explores effective foster care, adoption, family preservation and global orphan ministry.

This Call to Action makes recommendations at the country and global level for governments to initiate, lead and engage in dialogue with partners in order to strengthen the social service workforce and better protect children.

The Global Social Service Workforce Alliance hosted its 5th Annual Social Service Workforce Symposium on Wednesday, May 8, 2018, from 9:00 a.m.-4:30 ET at the FHI 360 Conference Center in Washington, DC.

Many unaccompanied children and young people arriving in countries seeking asylum lack official documents showing their identity and age. This article provides an overview of age assessment procedures used in industrialized countries.

This video from Mtoto News features interviews with several experts in the field of children's care and protection who discuss the importance of deinstitutionalization, particularly in the Eastern and Southern Africa context, and efforts being made to reduce or end the institutionalization of children.

This synthesis report, ‘Families, Family Policy and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Key Findings’ explores how the role of families, and family policies from around the world, can contribute to meeting the SDG targets.

The Child Welfare and the Travel Industry: Global Good Practice Guidelines have been developed to provide a common understanding of child welfare issues throughout the travel industry and to provide all travel businesses with guidance to prevent all forms of exploitation and abuse of children that could be related to travelers and the tourism industry.

The UNAIDS Inter Agency Task Team (IATT) for Social Protection, Care and Support will join representatives from governments, donors, academicians and civil society from 25– 26 April 2018 for the International Conference on Fast-Tracking Social Protection to end AIDS.

This is a series of briefing notes for UNICEF regional and country offices on SDG indicators. The first note summarises the development and implementation of the SDG global indicator framework and UNICEF’s role in supporting member states to collect, analyse and report on child-related SDG indicators at national and global levels. 

This article from Freedom United highglights the ways in which Australians, through tourism and donations, are contributing to the fueling of the orphanage industry in Southeast Asia, and the moves the Australian government is making to address this.