Unprotected: Crisis in Humanitarian Funding for Child Protection

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Save the Children International, Child Protection Area of Responsibility

This desk review provides a picture of funding for the child protection sector over the period 2010–2018. The authors highlight funding trends, main donors and recipients, and examine funding levels in comparison to financial requirements in a selection of countries in 2018.

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Exploring drivers of demand for child protection services in an English local authority

Rick Hood, Sarah Gorin, Allie Goldacre, Wilson Muleya, Paul Bywaters - Child & Family Social Work

This paper reports on an empirical study of child protection services in a local authority where rates of investigations and interventions rose to unprecedented levels during the course of a single year.

“Roll back the years”: A study of grandparent special guardians' experiences and implications for social work policy and practice in England

Helen Hingley‐Jones, Lucille Allain, Helen Gleeson, Bismark Twumasi - Child & Family Social Work

This paper reports a small qualitative research study where 10 sets of grandparents were interviewed to explore their journey to becoming GSGs and to theorize their subsequent experiences.

Protected! Podcast Episode 5 featuring Joan Lombardi on Caring for Young Children (Part 1)

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

In this episode of the Protected! Podcast, Hani Mansourian and Joan Lombardi - director of Early Opportunities - talk about how responsive care and early childhood experiences shape a child’s development and future wellbeing within families and communities.

“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.