International Adoption from China and India 1992–2018
This chapter compares and contrasts trends in international adoption in China and India over a period of 27 years from 1992 to 2018.
From Unnoticed to Invisible: The Impact of COVID‐19 on Children and Young People Experiencing Domestic Violence and Abuse
This continuing professional development paper provides an overview of the impact that COVID‐19 has had on specialist services delivering support to children and young people experiencing domestic violence and abuse (DVA).
Promoting family well‐being and social cohesion: The networking and relational approach of an innovative welfare service in the Italian context
This evaluation study examined a Family Services Centre (FSC) operating in a socio‐culturally deprived suburban area of Southern Italy to explore how promoting innovative practices to meet increasingly complex family needs.
A systematic review of children’s participation in child protection decision‐making: Tokenistic presence or not?
This article examines children's views on and experiences with participation in the child protection system's decision‐making process.
Strategies used by child and youth care workers to develop belonging and foster healthy attachments with young people in care in child and youth care centers in Tshwane, South Africa
This qualitative study, conducted in four child and youth care centres in the Tshwane region of South Africa, presents some techniques used by child and youth care workers to develop belonging.
Increasing parenting self-efficacy in foster carers: an evaluation of the attachment-centred parenting programme
This study reported comprises an evaluation of an Attachment-Centred Parenting (ACP) six session, evidence-based programme developed by the authors.
Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty: The Role of Agency in Mitigating the Impact for Child-Headed Households - A Case of Zola, Soweto (South Africa)
This study explored child headed households (CHH) in South Africa.
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"Oh, this is actually okay": Understanding how one state child welfare training system adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic
The purpose of this project was to determine if there were differences in learning outcomes between learners who completed child protection training in the usual delivery methods (Pre-COVID) and the fully virtual delivery methods (Post-COVID).
Zimbabwe's National Case Management System for Child Protection and Enhanced Rights Realisation for Children with Disabilities
The author of this study did a synthesis of the existing academic and policy literature and uses social work lens to undertake a situational analysis of current Zimbabwean child protection system dynamics with regards to Children with Disabilities hereafter referred to as CWDs.
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Parenting in a new environment: Implications for raising sub-Saharan African children within the Australian child protection context
This study explores how sub-Saharan African migrant parents and caregivers navigate parenting between the cultures that have shaped their lives and parenting expectations within the new environment.