This study sought to identify child, carer, and intervention characteristics that contribute to child wellbeing for Aboriginal children in out-of-home care in Australia. The article also identifies enablers and barriers to providing trauma-informed and culturally competent care to Aboriginal children. 

This paper offers recommendations for child welfare professionals, caregivers and systems to use the research on adolescent brain development to work effectively with youth in or emerging from foster care. 

Child Safety Minister Shannon Fentiman of Queensland, Australia announces $3 million trial to train foster carers and pay them to care for high-needs children who might otherwise live in residential care. 

This article from the "Good Tourism" Blog is a commentary on orphanage volunteering and tourism as a form of modern slavery, highlighting a recent article featured in The Conversation and current efforts working to end orphanage tourism. 

Since 2011, the government of Indian state Tamil Nadu has closed 843 unregistered child care institutions, with 1,300 registered homes still remaining. 

The practice of criminalizing the parenting choices of predominantly low-income women of color and placing their children in foster care is being deemed "Jane Crow," the New York Times reports. 

This article draws from three narratives of secret adoptions in Vietnam to further examine and analyze the complex nature and practices of domestic adoption in the country. 

The Cambodian Ministry of Social Affairs has announced that institutionalizing children under age 3 and the building of new orphanages in the country will be banned by the end of 2018.

On 21-22 June 2017, the African Child Policy Forum and Better Care Network - with the support of Catholic Relief Services, Family for Every Child, Hope and Homes for Children and Save the Children - convened 40 leaders representing child rights bodies, regional economic communities, national governments and civil society in Nairobi, Kenya for the Africa Expert Consultation: Violence Against Children in All Care Settings. 

Activists push for India’s government to move forward with long-awaited anti-trafficking legislation.