Conceptualising Care in Children’s Social Services
This article explores the concept of care and the responsibility assumed by ‘states’ when taking children into care.
This article explores the concept of care and the responsibility assumed by ‘states’ when taking children into care.
Drawing on a mixed method study of grandparent carers and service providers located in Western Australia, the authors of this article argue that there are important issues of inequity and injustice associated with being a grandcarer, in particular due to systemic and discursive failures to recognize the complexity and challenges of care provision.
The article describes a new initiative aiming to foster collaborations in the field of family strengthening programs.
This paper explores how adoptive parents, with knowledge of exploitation in their own adoptions, are responding emotionally and pragmatically.
This paper analyzes the impact of adults’ interactive moves and strategies on children’s participation and agency at dinnertime in two Italian residential care facilities, one of the most widely used alternative care life-context for children and youth coming from vulnerable families.
The current study provides data-informed recommendations for faith communities to support vulnerable families during the pandemic.
The study aims to assess the professional training needs of employees of the two institutional actors for the protection of children’s rights in Ukraine; identify factors shaping these needs.
This study examines the benefits of subsidized housing with supportive services compared to subsidized housing alone.
The purpose of this study was to provide a population-based analysis of child protection system (CPS) involvement among children and adolescents who died by suicide.
This qualitative evaluation was to determine the level of fidelity of Clark County Nevada’s Foster Kinship navigator program to its navigator program manual and to ascertain if Foster Kinship’s navigator program for formal kinship families met the minimum standard for promising practice.