This article explores how out-of-home care systems across five countries (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States) approach cultural care for children, examining the organisational structures, leadership, and practices that support or hinder children’s connections to their culture, family, and community. Drawing on interviews with service providers, it highlights key drivers of effective practice and offers practical tools and insights for strengthening culturally responsive, system-wide approaches to safeguarding children’s identity and wellbeing.

Child abuse and neglect in urban Vietnam are strongly associated with socio-economic hardship and family vulnerabilities, including low income, residential instability, single-parent households, low parental education, and alcohol misuse. The study underscores the need for integrated, community-based interventions that address both structural inequalities and family-level risk factors to effectively prevent child maltreatment.

One in four Indians lives in poverty, and many children enter institutional care due to factors like economic hardship, family disruption, and social vulnerabilities, highlighting the need for holistic, socio-legal support systems. This study finds that life skills education significantly improves children’s resilience and self-efficacy, with higher outcomes among those exposed to such programs, underscoring its importance in helping children build stable, constructive futures.

This scoping review examines how supported visitation in child welfare is defined and practiced, highlighting its role in maintaining parent–child relationships while ensuring emotional safety in complex, trauma-affected contexts. Findings reveal inconsistent implementation, limited focus on children’s experiences, and a lack of relationally grounded approaches, underscoring the need for more coherent, rights-based support for both children and parents.

This toolkit provides tools and resources to service providers working with unaccompanied and separated children across various contexts. The toolkit presents research and background on the experiences, needs, and strengths of unaccompanied and separated children, and specific considerations for how service providers may support children’s long-term well-being and resilience while providing needed services.

This brief, from the US National Child Welfare Center, can help child welfare professionals establish a common understanding among community partners, legislators, agency staff, caregivers, youth, and other partners about what an integrated, comprehensive, Prevention-focused approach looks like along a three-tiered Prevention continuum.

This study examines how mindfulness relates to psychological well-being among adolescents in orphanages in Pakistan, with a focus on the role of self-efficacy. Findings show that higher self-efficacy strengthens the positive impact of mindfulness on well-being, highlighting the importance of both factors in supporting adolescent mental health.

This paper aims to navigate the complex terrain of refugee law with a child-centric approach, evaluating whether the UK adequately safeguards the rights of unaccompanied children. It concludes that whilst the UK’s domestic legislation is in compliance with its international obligations, its asylum procedures ultimately fail to adequately safeguard unaccompanied children and a framework recognising vulnerability (as opposed to chronological age) as the appropriate threshold and determinative factor for safeguarding would better support the rights of unaccompanied minors and age-disputed individuals.

This article argues that the UK child social care system is in crisis, with rising numbers of children in care and persistently poor outcomes despite substantial spending. It identifies austerity, reduced preventative services, and factors such as domestic violence, parental mental health, and substance misuse as key drivers, and calls for systemic reform focused on reducing child poverty, investing in early intervention, and adopting trauma-informed approaches.

This report examines the impact of Evidence-Based Decision-Making (EBDM) Professional Development on leaders in child welfare in Australia.