This report from UNICEF assesses the world’s performance towards meeting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to date, focusing on 44 indicators that directly concern 2030’s most important constituency: children.
This page from the Human Rights Campaign provides a list of resources for child welfare professionals working with LGBTQ youth and families.
This chapter briefly outlines the range of assessments that are undertaken by psychologists in regards to placements for children in care, and underlines the importance of drawing together information about the child from different sources and perspectives.
The chapters in this book discuss the complexity immediately encountered when approaching the task of improving the lives of Looked After Children (LAC).
This narrative documents the experience of researchers with the objective of documenting lessons learned in the Amajuba Child Health and Wellbeing Research Project, a collaboration between researchers from two universities and a community in South Africa which measured the impact of orphaning due to HIV/AIDS on South African households between 2004 and 2007.
This study aimed to determine whether parents with two generations of involvement in out-of-home care (themselves as children, and their own children) are at increased risk of death by suicide than parents with no involvement or parents with one generation of involvement in out-of-home care.
This chapter will critically examine the difficulties faced by young people who are looked after by local authorities in accessing mental health services and argue, based on findings of recent Serious Case Reviews that there has never been a more dangerous time to be a looked-after child.
This case study follows a foster teen's matriculation through high school and the challenges she faces while trying to achieve her dream of going to college.
This paper describes the experiences of parents with child welfare cases in family court. The paper argues the need to build a court process to support parents and keep families together.
