Permanence in long-term foster care: Family relationships and professional systems
This paper examines permanence and long-term foster care in England.
Challenges of child protection: Responding to child neglect
This paper provides an overview of neglect as a phenomenon and explores some of these challenges for and to practice.
Meaningful participation for children in the Dutch child protection system: A critical analysis of relevant provisions in policy documents.
In this study, the participation of children in the Dutch child protection system (CPS) under the new Youth Act 2015 is critically analyzed.
Unpacking the Relationship between Parental Migration and Child well-Being: Evidence from Moldova and Georgia
Using household survey data collected between September 2011 and December 2012 from Moldova and Georgia, this paper measures and compares the multidimensional well-being of children with and without parents abroad.
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Experiences of child protection workers in collaborating with adult mental health providers: An exploratory study from Ontario, Canada
The aim of this paper is to describe findings from a survey which identified barriers and facilitators to collaboration between child welfare and adult mental health service providers.
Foster parents' emotional investment and their young foster children's socio-emotional functioning
The aim of this study was to investigate 60 foster parents' acceptance, commitment and awareness of influence to their early placed foster children at 2 years, as well as to investigate the association between these three concepts and the foster children's social-emotional functioning (externalizing, internalizing, dysregulation and competence) at 2 and 3 years of age.
Social support networks of care leavers: Mediating between childhood adversity and adult functioning
Social support networks of care leavers: Mediating between childhood adversity and adult functioning
The goals of the present study are to examine the association between childhood adversity and adult functioning among youth aging out-of-care, and to explore how attributes of their social support networks mediate this association.
Violence against children in South Africa: the cost of inaction to society and the economy
A recent costing study investigating the social burden and economic impact of violence against children in South Africa found notable reductions to mental and physical health outcomes in the population if children were prevented from experiencing violence, neglect and witnessing family violence.
Child welfare involvement and academic difficulties: Characteristics of children, families, and households involved with child welfare and experiencing academic difficulties
This study used data from a large representative sample of child welfare investigations to answer the following research questions: 1) Do children with maltreatment histories and academic difficulties differ from those with maltreatment histories but no academic difficulties; and 2) Does the presence of academic difficulties influence ongoing child welfare services.
Training child welfare citizen review panel members: A promising approach?
This brief documents the evaluation of an online training for Citizen Review Panel (CRP) members in one southeastern state in the United States.