Reforming Child Welfare in the Post-Soviet Space: Institutional Change in Russia

Meri Kulmala, Maija Jäppinen, Anna Tarasenko, Anna Pivovarova

This book provides new and empirically grounded research-based knowledge and insights into the current transformation of the Russian child welfare system. It focuses on the major shift in Russia’s child welfare policy: deinstitutionalisation of the system of children’s homes inherited from the Soviet era and an increase in fostering and adoption.

Barriers and solutions: Australian Indigenous practitioners on addressing disproportionate representation of Indigenous Australian children known to statutory child protection

Fiona Oates - AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

This article outlines the views of Indigenous practitioners collected as part of a doctoral study exploring the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practitioners who undertake child protection work in Australia.

Deconstructing doing well; what can we learn from care experienced young people in England, Denmark and Norway?

Elisiv Bakketeig, Janet Boddy, Tonje Gundersen, Jeanette Østergaard, Fidelma Hanrahan - Children and Youth Services Review

This paper addresses the conceptualization of ‘outcomes’ for care experienced people through an in-depth longitudinal study of 75 young adults in Denmark, England and Norway.

Stressful life events and delinquency among Chinese rural left-behind adolescents: The roles of resilience and separation duration

Quanquan Wang & Xia Liu - Children and Youth Services Review

The current study aimed to clarify the relationship between stressful life events and delinquency among left-behind adolescents by examining the moderating roles of resilience and separation duration in this process.

Care leaver needs and accessibility: Findings from the first large‐scale project in Switzerland

Marion Jarczok, Beatrice Knecht Krüger, Tanja Mitrovic, Gomera Gérard, Andreas Jud - Child & Family Social Work

This study investigated Switzerland's first large‐scale care leaver programme and analysed associations between care leavers' needs and contactability in a sample of 459 care leavers.

Mental Health Service Interventions for Left-behind Children in Mainland China: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

Miao Wang, Rebeccah Sokol, Hui Luan, Brian E. Perron, Bryan G. Victor, Shiyou Wue - Children and Youth Services Review

This study aimed to systematically review experimental studies of interventions that promote mental health wellbeing of left-behind children (LBC) in mainland China.