Young People Transitioning from Out-of-Home Care: What are the Lessons from Extended Care Programmes in the USA and England for Australia?

Philip Mendes, Justin Rogers - The British Journal of Social Work

This article interrogates formal public evaluations of extended care programmes with a particular focus on their eligibility criteria that have determined which groups of care leavers are included or alternatively excluded and the identified strengths and limitations of the programmes.

Predictors of Special Education Receipt Among Child Welfare-Involved Youth

Kevin A. Gee - Children and Youth Services Review

This quantitative study investigated how selected attributes of children (e.g., gender) and their microsystems (e.g., caregiving settings) related to the receipt of special education among a sample of 1855 child welfare-involved youth from the U.S. National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being II.

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Alternative Care Thailand

This animated video from Alternative Care Thailand tells the story of a boy in Thailand who is sent to live in an orphanage because his mother feels she is unable to care for him at home, his experiences with volunteers once he arrives at the orphanage, and how the orphanage transitioned to supporting children to live in families.

Child Protection Case Management Guidance for Remote Phone Follow-up in COVID-19

Child Protection Case Management Task Force Lebanon

This guidance note is intended to support child guidance for remote child protection case management, including the key child protection principles of survival and development, non-discrimination and inclusion, child participation, and the best interest of the child.

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The implications of COVID-19 for the care of children living in residential institutions

Philip S Goldman, Marinus H van Ijzendoorn, Edmund J S Sonuga-Barke on behalf of the Lancet Institutional Care Reform Commission Group

In this correspondence in the Lancet, the authors express their concerns regarding children in residential institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic and urge authorities to undertake carefully planned measures with respect to deinstitutionalisation.

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