Kinship Carers

Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body

The Scottish Parliament’s Social Justice and Social Security Committee has published its latest report on kinship carers, calling for improved support for carers.

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Left Far Behind: The Impact of COVID-19 on Access to Education and Healthcare for Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Children in Peninsular Malaysia

United Nations Childrens’ Fund, Malaysia

This thematic report is a merged and synthesised version of two full study reports, each focusing on education and healthcare in Malaysia. More details regarding the background, methodology, findings and recommendations of this project are found in the respective study reports.

Digital Childhoods: A Survey of Children and Parents

The UK Children’s Commissioner’s Office

This report aims to understand digital childhoods, and what can be achieved through the Online Safety Bill to protect children online. The Children’s Commissioner’s Office (CCo) commissioned a survey of 2,005 children aged 8-17 and their parents. This survey is nationally representative of children in England, by age, gender and region. All statistics mentioned in this report are from this survey.

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The Outcome of Children Placed in a Welfare Center or Foster Care Before the Age of 4: Prognostic Factors

A. Cailliez, P. Duverger, M. Rozé, D. Rousseau, E. Riquin

This qualitative study designed to identify potential prognostic factors relating to the outcome of children placed in a welfare center or foster care before the age of 4 years was based on the analysis of 34 case histories of children placed in a welfare center or foster care in Angers.

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Archives de Pediatrie

Reunifying or Leaving a Child Behind: How Official and Unofficial State Selection Shape Family Immigration in France

Julia Descamps, Cris Beauchemin

This paper aims to analyse how State policies, on the book and in practice, shape family reunification. It focuses on child migration under constraint in France, by analysing the timing and factors of (non-)reunification among foreign immigrants, whose legal conditions for family reunification are much more restrictive than for those who obtained the French citizenship.

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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Reunifying or Leaving a Child Behind: How Official and Unofficial State Selection Shape Family Immigration in France

Julia Descamps, Cris Beauchemin

This paper aims to analyse how State policies, on the book and in practice, shape family reunification. It focuses on child migration under constraint in France, by analysing the timing and factors of (non-)reunification among foreign immigrants, whose legal conditions for family reunification are much more restrictive than for those who obtained the French citizenship.

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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Children, Care and Crime: Trauma and Transformation

Alison Gerard, Andrew McGrath, Emma Colvin, Annette Gainsford

This book examines the involvement of those with care experience in the criminal justice system in an Australian jurisdiction. The majority of children in care do not come into contact with the youth justice system. However, among children involved in the youth justice system, those with care experience are overrepresented. The authors focus on the process of colonialisation and criminalisation, rather than crime. 

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Children, Care and Crime

Foster Care Leads to Sustained Cognitive Gains Following Severe Early Deprivation

Kathryn L. Humphreys, Lucy S. King, Katherine L. Guyon-Harris, Charles H. Zeanah

This study, based in Romania, examined longitudinal data from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, a randomized controlled trial of foster care as an alternative to institutional care following exposure to severe psychosocial deprivation.

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PNAS