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.

Child’s i Foundation, with support from Hope and Homes for Children, is commissioning a short consultancy to help bridge global care reform with Islamic theology and practice in African contexts.

Building on Spring Impact's previous ISPCAN Network webinar on the fundamentals of scaling impact, this session dives deeper into what it truly takes to scale child sexual abuse prevention-focused initiatives.

This global brief examines how sustained humanitarian funding cuts since early 2025 are affecting children’s safety, access to protection services, and the overall capacity of child protection systems across humanitarian contexts. Drawing on insights from 401 practitioners across 68 countries, alongside key informant interviews, the analysis shows that what began as short-term financial disruption has evolved into systemic deterioration.

This article reviews the emerging research on cross-border placements of children in care, including kinship care and intensive pedagogy models, amid rising global migration. It highlights ongoing concerns around legal frameworks, accountability, and limited comparative data, while outlining key implications and priorities for future social work research.

This webinar held in partnership with Save the Children and the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance (GSSWA) focuses on Strengthening the Community-Level Social Welfare Workforce (CLSWW). The session presents key learnings from the nine‑country analysis and introduces new practical guidance to help practitioners, governments, and partners strengthen the CLSWW through a Child Protection Systems Strengthening (CPSS) and localization lens.

The Georgetown University Collaborative on Global Children’s Issues is undertaking a project to document and preserve U.S. experience and contributions in addressing child labor globally. This survey gathers perspectives on U.S. government engagement on this issue and focuses on what has driven progress against child labor over the past 30 years, what is at risk, and how evidence and policy tools should guide future action.