Commonwealth Modern Slavery Act 2018: Guidance for Reporting Entities

Australian Border Force

This guidance, which was developed for businesses and other organisations required to report under Australia's Modern Slavery Act 2018, offers a case study on orphanage trafficking as well as information on orphanage trafficking as a form of modern slavery and how entities can identify it in their operations and supply chains.

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‘If only I had known – I would have done anything to keep my baby’. Assumption of care at birth, who's story is it?

Christine Marsh - Women and Birth

Removal of a baby from his or her mother at the time of birth, when child protection issues are suspected, is know as an Assumption of Care (AoC). This research explored childbearing women's experiences of an AoC at birth. It sought to understand individual women's stories, how they made sense of of the experiences and how these experiences framed their lives.

Examining the relationship between the needs of children and young persons living in residential care and critical incidents using the Singapore CANS assessment tool

Grace S. Chng, Wan Fen Yip, Lydia Pek, Ming Hwa Ting, Chi Meng Chu - Developmental Child Welfare

This study had two aims: first, it sought to test whether Children and young persons (CYPs) who entered residential care with higher level-of-care (LoC) scores on the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) tool, indicative of higher needs or more intensive services required, were more likely to experience a critical incident. Second, it aimed to test the various needs separately with the occurrence of critical incidents to delineate the impact of each individual need on critical incident.

A narrative review of stability and change in the mental health of children who grow up in family-based out-of-home care

Michael Tarren-Sweeney, Anouk Goemans - Developmental Child Welfare

The present review sought to address the following questions: What evidence is there that long-term, family-based out-of-home care (OOHC) has a general, population-wide effect on children’s mental health such that it is generally reparative or generally harmful? Does entry into long-term OOHC affect children’s mental health, as evidenced by prospective changes over the first years in care? And, is the reparative potential of long-term, family-based OOHC moderated by children’s age at entry into care?

Youth participation in policy advocacy: Examination of a multi-state former and current foster care youth coalition

Astraea Augsberger, Julie Sweeney Springwater, Grace Hilliard Koshinsky, Kelsey Barber, Linda Sprague Martinez - Children and Youth Services Review

This study examined stakeholder views on the key elements and challenges of youth participation in policy advocacy in the context of a US multi-state current and former foster care youth coalition.

Caregiver ratings of executive functions among foster children in middle childhood: Associations with early adversity and school adjustment

Pablo Carrera, Jesús M. Jiménez-Morago, Maite Román, Esperanza León - Children and Youth Services Review

This study sought to analyze the executive functions of a sample of 43 Spanish foster children aged between five and nine years (M = 7.51, SD = 1.29), using a caregiver-reported questionnaire.

Enhancing Capacity for Trauma‐informed Care in Child Welfare: Impact of a Statewide Systems Change Initiative

Christian M. Connell, Jason M. Lang, Bethany Zorba, Kristina Stevens - Community Psychology

This article describes CONCEPT, a multi‐year initiative to enhance capacity of the US state of Connecticut's child welfare system (CWS) to provide trauma‐informed care.

Development of atypical parental behavior during an inpatient family preservation intervention program

Anne-Fleur W. K. Vischer, Wendy J. Post, Hans Grietens, Erik J. Knorth, Elisa Bronfman - Infant Mental Health Journal

Since failed reunification is a detrimental outcome for children, particularly infants and toddlers, the aim of this study was to gain insight into support to families in multiple-problem situations in the Netherlands to help them achieve sustainable good-enough parenting.

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Maintaining culture and supporting cultural identity in foster care placements

Manjula Waniganayake, Fay Hadley, Matthew Johnson, Paul Mortimer, Tadgh McMahon, Kathy Karatasas - Australasian Journal of Early Childhood

This article reports on an exploratory study about maintaining and supporting the cultural identity of children from culturally and linguistically diverse family backgrounds in foster care placements.

Conceptions, Norms, and Values in the Work of Child Protective Services with Families at Risk: An Analysis of Social Workers’ Diaries

Annelie Björkhagen Turesson - Clinical Social Work Journal

This study is based on diaries maintained by three social workers in relation to 15 families that were the subject of interventions by the child protective services in Sweden.

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