This report explores ways for public agencies to ensure that children receive the care they need by enlisting more volunteers to step forward as foster parents and by encouraging the extraordinary individuals who have already answered the call to continue their commitment to care. The report identifies three major themes for engaging and empowering foster parents: ensuring quality caregiving for children; forging strong relationships; and, finding and keeping more amazing caregivers.

The Africa’s Agenda for Children, to be adopted by the Committee, presents measurable goals and priority areas  to which the African Union and its Member States commit themselves for the coming 25 years.  

In this piece from FusionTV, Nelufar Hedayat travels to Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate the relationship between international adoption and child trafficking.

SOS Children’s Villages is organising the Conference “Children’s Rights in Alternative Care: Walk the Talk!” taking place in Paris on 8th November, under the patronage of Ms Laurence Rossignol, Minister for the Family, Children and Women’s Rights. 

Nova Scotia will be the only province that does not allow birth mothers and adult adopted children to obtain information about one another. 

New Canadian child welfare law allows children to have a say in their care.

The objective of the study was to estimate the prevalence, comorbidity and socio-demographic correlates of common mental disorders among orphan and vulnerable children (OVCs) in residential care.

Adoptions in Greece have fallen to their lowest in a decade.

Chilean government reports that 865 children have died under the care of the National Service over the past 11 years.

This study captures the lived experiences of twenty-four young Indian girls who have left care in the past four years. It addresses their journey of moving out of care at two levels — their preparation to leave care and their present experience.