Theirworld, UNICEF and Act for Early Years partners invite you to join them on the occasion of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund 2026 Spring Meetings for a high-level event focusing on transformational early years investments and accelerating momentum towards the first-ever International Financing Summit for Early Childhood in 2027.

Save the Children and the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance (GSSWA) are pleased to invite you to a webinar on strengthening the Community-Level Social Welfare Workforce (CLSWW). The session will present key learning from the nine‑country analysis and introduce new practical guidance to help practitioners, governments, and partners strengthen the CLSWW through a Child Protection Systems Strengthening (CPSS) and localization lens.

This podcast explores why many U.S. Christians continue to financially support orphanages despite believing children thrive best in families, highlighting a gap between values and giving behaviors. Drawing on Barna research, it examines misconceptions, emotional drivers, and practical barriers influencing donor choices, while encouraging a shift toward family-based care and more ethical, community-centered engagement.

This webinar, held by the Care Leaders Council, is a space for international exchange among people with lived experience in care, aimed at analyzing regulatory progress, best practices, and challenges in the transition to independent living, strengthening global networks and promoting more effective public policies.

This webinar, held by the Care Leaders Council, is a space for international exchange among people with lived experience in care, aimed at analyzing regulatory progress, best practices, and challenges in the transition to independent living, strengthening global networks and promoting more effective public policies.

Parents living through conflict, displacement, and humanitarian crises faced extraordinary pressures that affected both their own wellbeing and their children’s development. This Global Parenting Initiative webinar brought together global and field-level perspectives to explore how parenting and psychosocial support could be better aligned within humanitarian systems.

Parents living through conflict, displacement, and humanitarian crises face extraordinary pressures that affect both their own well-being and their children’s development. This webinar brings together global and field-level perspectives to explore how parenting and psychosocial support can be better aligned within humanitarian systems.

Child Development Accounts (CDAs) are government-funded savings or investment accounts established at birth to support children’s future education, with evidence showing both economic benefits for families and positive psychological effects for children. This article focuses on how to comply with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, CDA policies must ensure universal access, progressive public funding based on need, and early account establishment, including for children in institutional care to prevent discrimination.

This systematic review synthesised qualitative research on care-experienced children’s pathways into and through the criminal justice system, highlighting how factors such as trauma, a search for belonging, systemic challenges, and intersectionality shape their experiences. The findings underscore the need for trauma-informed approaches, stronger support systems, and reduced unnecessary criminal justice involvement to better respond to the needs of care-experienced children.

This article reports on a recent Barna Group study examining how U.S. Christians view and support orphanages. It highlights a growing shift in awareness, with more Christians recognizing that poverty—not the absence of parents—is a primary reason children enter residential care and that children generally thrive better in family-based environments.