The Guest Editors of this special issue welcome empirical and theoretically-informed contributions that adopt local and global perspectives and investigate the conceptual and practical implications of adoption and appropriation experiences. 

This report summarises the findings of an international study of the ethical challenges faced by social workers during the Covid-19 pandemic, undertaken during 6th-18th May 2020.

In this course, you’ll enhance your understanding of the heightened protection risks and vulnerabilities that children are facing around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This editorial piece from the Lancet posits whether today's children "will be defined and confined by the losses from COVID-19."

This conference seeks to explore how such diverse perspectives can inform a new ethics of adoption and the care of orphaned or abandoned children in Muslim communities.

This webinar focuses on Community-Level Approaches to Child Protection, which replaces the old standard Community-Based Mechanisms.

The Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS) Working Group of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action is launching a new webinar series to introduce the new standards in the 2019 edition of the CPMS.

This online event will launch the Lancet Group Commission on the institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation of children, which advocates global reform of the care of separated children through the progressive replacement of institutional provision with safe and nurturing family-based care.

This article from Child Rights International Network (CRIN) outlines some of the risks faced by children in residential care institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic and how governments should be responding during – and after – this pandemic.

In this second part of the Lancet Group Commission on institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation of children, international experts in reforming care for children identify evidence-based policy recommendations to promote family-based alternatives to institutionalisation.