This webinar—hosted by the Transitioning Residential Care Working Group under the Transforming Children's Care Collaborative—will bring together practitioners from Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Eastern and Southern Africa to explore how social norms shape efforts to transition away from residential care and how they can be effectively addressed.

This Alliance magazine feature, examines how global funding systems have unintentionally sustained institutional care for children by financially incentivizing orphanages, even though most children in these settings are not orphans and have living family members.

This article reviews research on the psychological well-being of children and adolescents in residential care, examining how individual strengths, relationships, and care environments interact to influence developmental outcomes. It argues for a shift away from isolated risk-and-protection models toward a relational and ecological approach that recognizes stable caregiving relationships, supportive environments, and trauma-informed practices as essential to children’s well-being.

This brief examines how armed conflict affects children’s development and family life, drawing on attachment theory and insights from the war in Ukraine. It highlights both the harms of war and the resilience of families, emphasizing the need for targeted support to help caregivers and professionals provide safe, stable care for children during and after conflict.

UNICEF’s Global Programme Framework for Children on the Move sets out the organization’s renewed priorities and guiding principles for protecting, including and empowering children affected by migration and displacement worldwide.

This report explores the attitudes, motivations, and practices of Irish Christians in supporting children in overseas care, particularly in residential institutions. The report finds that while many are driven by compassion, faith-based values, and a desire to help vulnerable children, there is often limited awareness of the potential harms of institutional care and the benefits of family-based alternatives.

This toolkit aims to support practitioners to enhance integration support and services, helping to ensure that children and young people are provided with support and protection that fosters their development and well-being in a way that is equal and equitable to the way that the development and well-being of children that are citizens of the country are fostered.

Exploring the biblical and theological basis for child protection and safeguarding, this book raises awareness of the often-ignored reality of child abuse in churches and Christian organisations. ddressing issues such as gender-based violence, child trafficking, online sexual exploitation, child marriage, domestic and family violence, fostering and adoption, inclusion care for disabilities and special needs, amongst others, the authors offer practical tools developed from lived experiences.

This World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) statement calls on churches, ministries, and donors worldwide to shift away from reliance on institutional care (such as orphanages) and instead prioritize family-based care for vulnerable children.

This opinion article argues that while Christian churches have historically supported orphanages and residential care as a way of living out their faith-based call to care for vulnerable children, growing evidence suggests this model is often harmful and should be rethought.