Date: 9 May - 27 May 2022

Location: Geneva, Switzerland (Palais Wilson, Ground Floor Conference Room)

The following countries will present state reports for consideration:

The Task Force on Foster Care of the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform held the second spotlight webinar series on identifying foster carers on 5 May 2022.

This webinar will be the second of five webinars in the spotlight series on foster care practice organized by the Task Force on Foster Care of the Transforming Children’s Care Global Collaborative Platform.

Individual studies suggest most children and youth in residential care centres (RCCs) have living parents, and parental death is not the primary antecedent to placement in residential care. The goal of the present review was to examine the literature to better understand the primary antecedents to placement in RCCs overall. One hundred thirty-two studies, including 60,683 children in 47 nations meet eligibility criteria for inclusion for the overarching review of antecedents of placement.

Introduction

This systematic literature review searched for studies published in any language between 1st January 2000 to 16th February 2021 and identified 33 studies that provided findings for co-occurring IPV and VAC in 24 low- and middle-income countries.

We at PFAN, IPAN, and SWAG are pleased to announce our joint webinar on language and why it matters from a parental and professional point of view.

The purpose of this U.S.-based study was to determine whether children with developmental disorders (DDs) in protective custody are more likely to experience specific placement types and stay in care longer than their typically developing peers. Furthermore, in the DD-only group, the authors examined whether the likelihood of each placement type differed by specific DD diagnosis.

This chapter in the "Attachment-Informed Parent Coaching" book discusses how to use attachment-informed parent coaching to help children in foster care heal from the multiple layers of attachment trauma they have experienced. The author describes how to help children in foster care develop healthier relationships with both foster and biological parents.

India Alternative Care Network is calling for contributions to its newsletter, IACN Quarterly.