The children who no-one knows what to do with: Briefing paper

Children's Commissioner

This paper summarises the findings of three years of work by the UK Children’s Commissioner’s Office and provides context for two further reports. It explains the failure of local and national government to take responsibility for children in residential care and sets out what action is needed by government – both local and national – to fix this broken system.

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‘Everybody’s Child’ but ‘Nobody’s Child’: Strengthening Alternative Family and Community Based Care Options for Abandoned Children Placed in Ugandan Institutions.

Nakimbugwe Grace Lisa - The Hague

The study examined alternative family and community care options and how they can be strengthened; cultural attitudes and perceptions of the communities and experiences of prospective foster and adoptive parents as regards reunification, kinship care, fostering and adoption.

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