“Surviving not thriving”: experiences of health among young people with a lived experience in out-of-home care

Madelaine Smales, Melissa Savaglio, Heather Morris, Lauren Bruce, Helen Skouteris & Rachael Green - International Journal of Adolescence and Youth

This study aimed to explore the experiences and perceptions of health among young people (YP) who have previously lived in care.

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Thirty years of the CRC: Child protection progress, challenges and opportunities

John Tobin & Judy Cashmore - Child Abuse & Neglect

In this article, the authors outline some of the issues in the implementation and understanding of the Convention and highlight three major international developments over the last decade: the adoption of General Comment No 13, the work of the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence Against Children, and the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the UN General Assembly in 2005.

A longitudinal jurisdictional study of Black children reported to child protection services in Quebec, Canada

Alicia Boatswain-Kyte, Tonino Esposito, Nico Trocmé - Children and Youth Services Review

This article examines rates of disparity using secondary longitudinal clinical-administrative data provided by a child protection agency in Quebec for a subsample of Black, White, and other visible minority children over a ten-year span.

Earlier Contact with Child Protection Services Among Children of Parents With Criminal Convictions and Mental Disorders

Tyson Whitten, Kimberlie Dean, Rebecca Li, Kristin R. Laurens, Felicity Harris, Vaughan J. Carr, Melissa J. Green - Child Maltreatment

In this study the authors examined the relative contributions of maternal versus paternal criminal offending or mental health problems in relation to the time to the offspring’s first report to child protection services, or first placement in out of home care (OOHC), using administrative records for a population sample of 71,661 children.

The challenges affecting foster care in a “failed-state” context: case of the SEDI child protection network in South-Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo

Agino Foussiakda Cécilia & Amani C. Kasherwa - Children and Youth Services Review

Using a phenomenological research design, this study delves into the motivations and challenging experience of foster carers in South-Kivu.

What Makes an Effective Early Childhood Parenting Programme: a Systematic Review of Reviews and Meta-analyses

Jie Gao, Clare Brooks, Yuwei Xu, Eleanor Kitto - The UCL Institute of Education

By synthesising the research evidence, this study seeks to address the questions of whether early childhood parenting programmes are effective in improving parenting and enhancing children's development; and which factors of the programme design and implementation contribute to the successful outcomes of parenting programmes.

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Community‐Based Caregiver and Family Interventions to Support the Mental Health of Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Review and Future Directions

Francesca Penner, Carla Sharp, Lochner Marais, Cilly Shohet, Deborah Givon, Michael Boivin - New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

The goal of this paper was to conduct a review of studies from 2008 to 2019 that evaluated community‐based caregiver or family interventions to support the mental health of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in sub‐Saharan Africa, across four domains: (a) study methodology, (b) cultural adaptation and community participation, (c) intervention strategies, and (d) effects on child mental health.