Residential Care For Children in Ghana: Strengths and Challenges
In this chapter of Residential child and youth care in a developing world: Global perspectives, First Edition, the reader is introduced to residential care in Ghana.
Kinship Care: An Afrocentric Perspective
This thesis explores the experiences and meanings that are attributed to kinship care by caregivers, young people of African descent, and social workers.
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The Children’s Report: Australia’s NGO coalition report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child
This report presents the findings from a national consultation with children and young people, conducted by UNICEF Australia.
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Economics and violence against children, findings from the Violence Against Children Survey in Nigeria
This study seeks to assess the impact of economic factors on sexual, emotional, and physical violence on Nigerian children and adolescents aged 13–24 years.
Manifestations of socioeconomic status and its association with physical child punishment– Results from the Multi-Indicators Cluster Survey in Viet Nam, 2006–2014
This article presents results from an investigation of the socioeconomic predictors of physical child punishment using three rounds of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) in a lower middle-income country, Viet Nam from 2006 to 2014.
A Crying Shame: A report by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner into vulnerable babies in England
This report uses local authority data from March 2017 to estimate how many UK children under the age of five are at risk of severe harm, with a particular focus on infants under the age of one.
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Supporting the implementation of Council Tax exemption for Scotland’s care leavers: Good practice note
This practice note is drawn from the discussion and outlines key considerations and a range of measures for local authorities to take as Corporate Parents to ensure consistent and effective implementation of the regulations, now established in law.
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Initial evaluation of the ‘Why Not?’ initiative developed by Care Visions
This short document provides a summary of initial learning from data gathered for an evaluation of the Why Not? initiative in Scotland. The Why Not? initiative within Care Visions services was started in 2014 to ‘improve the way young people are supported when ageing out of care, by offering a different experience of relationships beyond care.’
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Community Dialogues as a Strategy for Identifying and Addressing Child Protection Needs in Shinyanga, Tanzania
This paper presents community dialogues as a participatory research and program development strategy through which developmental scientists and local community partners can collaboratively surface, discuss, address, and evaluate child protection and well-being issues in their communities.