The main principles of family reunification in the jurisprudence of the ECtHR
The paper aims to build a frame around the main principles of family reunification through the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights.
Care and Support Programmes for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Achievements and Implications of HIV/AIDS Funded Project in Osun State, Nigeria
This paper presents the achievements and implications of HIV Programme Development Project (HPDP) funded by World Bank on care and support services for OVC in Osun State, Nigeria.
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Returning children home from care: What can be learned from local authority data?
This study used 8 years of administrative data (on 2,208 care entrants), collected by one large English local authority, to examine how many children were returned home and to explore factors associated with stable reunification (not re-entering care for at least 2 years).
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Unaccompanied children in Flemish family foster care. Prevalence and associated factors of placement breakdown
This study aimed at investigating the incidence of placement breakdown in Flemish family foster care (Dutch speaking part of Belgium) for unaccompanied children (UC), and to explore the association of breakdown with foster child, foster family and case characteristics.
High School Dropout Rates of Japanese Youth in Residential Care: An Examination of Major Risk Factors
This study aimed to examine the risk factors that lead residential care youths in Japan to drop out of high school.
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Policy as Social Ecological Resilience Scaffolding for Leaving Care: A Case Study of South Africa
This chapter’s authors argue that social policy on leaving care is a critical resilience process for promoting care leavers’ successful transition toward emerging adulthood.
Orphanage Trafficking, Modern Slavery and the Australian Response
This article by Kathryn E. van Doore and Rebecca Nhep, published in the Griffith Journal of Law & Human Dignity, describes how orphanage trafficking occurs as a process of child trafficking.
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The Development of Child Protection Law and Policy: Children, Risk and Modernities
This book examines how child protection law has been shaped by the transition to late modernity and how it copes with the ever-changing concept of risk.
Achieving Comprehensive Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
The authors of this study propose a strategy that increases system collaboration, leverages existing infrastructure, and adopts multi-source funding models that invest in prevention services to inoculate society against child abuse and neglect (CAN).
Family-level factors to reintegrate street-involved children in low- and middle-income countries: A Scoping Review
Through a review of implemented programs to reunite street-involved children and youth (SICY) with their families as well as relevant formative research on family-level risk factors for street migration, the authors of this study explore family-level factors relevant to successful family reintegration of SICY.