Developing Social Care and Support Services in Uganda: A Literature Review of International Experience in Implementing Social Care and Support Services: Considerations for the Ugandan Context

Prof Andy Bilson, Dr Jolly Nyeko, Joanna Baskott and Chris Rayment - Oxford Policy Management

This paper provides a review of international and Ugandan literature on social care and support services particularly focussing on identifying key lessons that are relevant to the Ugandan context. 

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Supporting Successful Reunifications

Child Welfare Information Gateway

This bulletin offers information to help US child welfare agency managers by providing strategies for achieving reunification and preventing reentry and includes examples of promising practices being implemented by States and localities.

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Determinants of child maltreatment in Nepal: Results from the 2014 Nepal multiple indicator cluster survey (the 2014 NMICS)

Madhu Sudhan Atterayaa, Nasser B. Ebrahimb, Shreejana Gnawali - Child Abuse and Neglect

This study examined the prevalence of child maltreatment as measured by the level of physical (moderate to severe) and emotional abuse and child labor, and the associated household level determinants of child maltreatment in Nepal. 

Peer mentoring services, opportunities, and outcomes for child welfare families with substance use disorders

Ruth A. Huebnera, Martin T. Hallb, Erin Smeadc, Tina Willauerd, Lynn Posze - Children and Youth Services Review

This is a prospective study of 28 family mentors providing peer recovery support services to 783 families with child maltreatment and parental substance use disorders (SUD) over 8 years in a family-centered integrated program with SUD treatment providers.

Joint general comment on the general principles regarding the human rights of children in the context of international migration

Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families & Committee on the Rights of the Child

This joint comment lays out recommendations for protecting the rights of unaccompanied minors as well as those who have been separated from their families due to migration.

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The Problem of Orphanages

World Travel Market London

This session of the World Travel Market in London focused on orphanage tourism and featured speakers from the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative and other partners, including Save the Children, Friends International, Lumos, and People and Places.

Inquiry into establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia - Opening Statements from the Briefing on Orphanage Tourism

Parliament of Australia

On 17 August 2017, the Australian Foreign Affairs and Aid Sub-Committee was briefed by representatives from the Cambodian Children’s Trust and Forget Me Not Foundation on the issue of orphanage tourism. This link includes a video of the opening statements from this briefing.

Official Committee Hansard, Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade: Adopting a modern slavery act in Australia

Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade - Commonwealth of Australia

This document includes the full transcript of the public hearings of the Australian Parliamentary Inquiry in preparation for a Modern Slavery Act. 

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