Reunification for children in out-of-home care - Part 5: Evidence-based programs that promote successful reunifications

Rosie Teague - Queensland Family and Child Commission

This paper reviews evidence from some well evaluated US reunification programs to investigate positive impact on post reunification outcomes such as preventing future maltreatment or future re-entry into care.

Economic crisis and child maltreatment in Spain: the consequences of the recession in the child protection system

Xavier Montagud Mayor - Journal of Children's Services

This study aims to examine the consequences of the last great recession on the child protection system (CPS) in Spain, to estimate whether there is any kind of relationship between the conditions of socio-economic crisis and its protective activity.

Challenges of developing a district child welfare plan in South Africa: lessons from a community-engaged HIV/AIDS research project

Jennifer Beard, Anne Skalicky, Busisiwe Nkosi, Tom Zhuwau, Mandisa Cakwe, Jonathon Simon, and Mary Bachman DeSilva - Global Health Promotion

The Amajuba Child Health and Wellbeing Research Project measured the impact of orphaning due to HIV/AIDS on South African households between 2004 and 2007. Community engagement was a central component of the project and extended through 2010. This article describes researcher engagement with the community to recruit participants, build local buy-in, stimulate interest in study findings, and promote integration of government social welfare services for families and children affected by HIV/AIDS.

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Fostering global dialogue: Conceptualisations of children's rights to participation and protection

Tara M. Collins, Irene Rizzini, Amanda Mayhew - Children & Society

Informed by systematic reviews of the English‐ and Latin American academic literature in Spanish and Portuguese and key informant interviews with international stakeholders, this paper fosters global dialogue with some Global South and Global North perspectives about the interconnections of children's rights.

Rights in records: a Charter of Lifelong Rights in Childhood Recordkeeping in Out-of-Home Care for Australian and Indigenous Australian children and care leavers

Frank Golding, Antonina Lewis, Sue McKemmish, Gregory Rolan & Kirsten Thorpe - The International Journal of Human Rights

This paper introduces the Charter of Lifelong Rights in Childhood Recordkeeping in Out-of-Home Care, centred on the critical, lifelong and diverse information and recordkeeping needs of Australian and Indigenous Australian children and adults who are experiencing, or have experienced Out-of-Home Care.