This special issue of the Children & Youth Services Review, Volume 92, focuses on unaccompanied immigrant children throughout the world.
In November 2015, ASPIRES launched an online survey of practitioners to identify potential sources of learning and to assess needs for improving the use of economic strengthening (ES) interventions in reintegration and prevention of separation programming. This brief report summarizes the findings of this survey.
This learning brief analyzes quantitative data from the second of the “Deinstitutionalization of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Uganda” (DOVCU) project’s stated objectives: examining the extent to which DOVCU project interventions decrease vulnerabilities for reintegrating children and their families.
This learning brief analyzes quantitative data from the first of the project’s stated objectives: examining the extent to which “Deinstitutionalization of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Uganda” (DOVCU) project interventions decrease vulnerabilities for households and children at risk of separation.
This learning brief analyzes quantitative data from both households at risk of separation and reintegrating households to understand how the “Deinstitutionalization of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Project in Uganda” (DOVCU) package of integrated social and economic interventions affects children and households differently depending on the sex of the child, caregiver, and/or household head.
The objective of this evaluation is to assess the performance of the “Deinstitutionalization of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Project in Uganda” (DOVCU) with regards to the creation of sustainable changes in the lives of two beneficiary groups, namely 43,000 vulnerable children living in targeted households and 2,000 children at risk as a result of an integrated package of support.
This final report on the “Deinstitutionalization of Vulnerable Children in Uganda” (DOVCU) project identifies its successes as well as some shortcomings and key learning that is directly relevant to other projects working to support family care for children.
This paper presents findings from an independent study of Ofsted inspections into children's social care in England, covering reports under three inspection frameworks during the period 2009 to 2016.
In this study, 32 young adults aged 18 to 25 participated in semi‐structured interviews regarding their current support figures in order to learn whether they were congruent with their needs after emancipation.
This report summarizes the main findings of the ‘Study on Violence against Women and Violence against Children,’ conducted in Albania, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Turkey and Ukraine from 2016 to 2017, to identify major areas of overlap between intimate partner violence (IPV) and violence against children (VAC).
