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Better Care Network,

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

UNICEF Fiji ,

UNICEF Fiji is seeking a Consultant to support Child Protection Assessment for the Markets for Change / M4C Project.

Michele Burn, Tess Knight, Lisa Taylor, John W. Toumbourou - Children and Youth Services Review,

This paper reports a qualitative study of parents' experiences of participating in an Australian adapted trial of the Strengthening Families Program (SFP).

Jeffrey Waid & Armeda Stevenson Wojciak - Children and Youth Services Review,

To explore the viability of positive youth development for youth in care, this observational study investigated whether participation in a summer camp-based reunification program for siblings separated by foster care in the US and Australia called Camp To Belong influenced youth resilience, a critical protective mechanism for maltreated youth.

Sharynne Hamilton, Deborah Cleland, Valerie Braithwaite - Community Development Journal,

Drawing on in-depth interviews with fifteen community workers, who represent nine agencies assisting families with child protection issues in a small jurisdiction in Australia, the authors of this article show how the stigma attached to ‘bad’ parents is passed on to the community workers who are supporting them.

Samantha Lyneham and Lachlan Facchini - Australian Institute of Criminology,

This paper summarises the processes by which children become vulnerable to sexual exploitation and related harms within or facilitated by orphanages.

Michael Tarren-Sweeney - Developmental Child Welfare,

The present article reports findings of a narrative review of self- and carer-report mental health data that addressed the research question: Do adolescents who reside in statutory out-of-home care (OOHC) systematically underreport their mental health difficulties in population studies?

Calla Wahlquist - The Guardian,

"Indigenous newborns and babies less than one year old [in Western Australia] are being removed from their parents and placed into out-of-home care at increased rates," according to this article from the Guardian.

Nadine Cameron, Lynne McPherson, Kathomi Gatwiri, Natalie Parmenter - Australian Childhood Foundation Centre for Excellence in Therapeutic Care & Southern Cross University,

This research summary provides an overview of what young people leaving residential care in Australia need and how those working in residential care can best help young people prepare for independence.

Melissa O’Donnell, Stephanie Taplin, Rhonda Marriott, Fernando Lima, Fiona J. Stanley - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This study will determine where disparities in child protection involvement exist among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children and characteristics associated with infant removals.