Fostering educational success of children and youth in care: Perspectives of youth with experience living in care

Deborah Rutman, Carol Hubberstey - Children and Youth Services Review

This study involved a comprehensive literature review, an environmental scan, and interviews with 20 former youth in care in Canada, focusing on what helps and hinders youth in care to graduate from high school.

Child-to-adult neurodevelopmental and mental health trajectories after early life deprivation: the young adult follow-up of the longitudinal English and Romanian Adoptees study

Prof Edmund J S Sonuga-Barke, Mark Kennedy, Prof Robert Kumsta, Nicky Knights, Dennis Golm, Prof Michael Rutter, et al. - The Lancet

This study used data from the English and Romanian Adoptees study to assess whether deprivation-associated adverse neurodevelopmental and mental health outcomes persist into young adulthood.

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Country Care Review: Niger

Better Care Network

This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as part of its examination of Niger's initial reports, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review. 

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Country Care Review: Mauritania

Better Care Network

This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child as part of its examination of Mauritania's initial reports, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review. 

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Early Means Early: Mapping the Gaps Between Expert, Stakeholder, and Public Understandings of Early Childhood Development in South Africa

FrameWorks Institute, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development, Stellenbosch University, UNICEF, and the MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit

This report identifies key communications challenges faced by experts and advocates as they seek to elevate support for public policies that will best serve the developmental needs of all children in South Africa.

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