The WHO South-East Asia Regional Office in collaboration with UNICEF organized a 3-day virtual meeting from 27 to 29 April, 2021.

This is a recording of the National Launch of the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty in Cambodia, conducted on 22 April 2021.

The perspectives and priorities of more than 10,000 children and young people, from within and outside the European Union (EU), are expressed powerfully throughout this report.

This manifesto calls on the Council of the EU and its Member States to be ambitious in the implementation the European Pillar of Social Rights, to adopt the Child Guarantee Council Recommendation as a matter of priority, and to ensure that the Child Guarantee starts being implemented six months from the adoption of the Recommendation.

This is a preliminary analysis of the new EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child was carried out by the Eurochild Secretariat.

The main purpose of the Monitoring Report on the Decentralization Process of Social Services for 2020, is the reflection of the current situation on the full implementation of the decentralisation process of social services in Kosovo.

First Years First Priority is a Europe-wide campaign set up to advocate for prioritization of early childhood development in public policies, with a particular focus on families and children who are at greater risk of discrimination and exclusion. This briefing provides a description of the policy context in which the 'First Year, First Priority' campaign is launched.

This article presents findings from an exploratory in-depth qualitative research project with seventeen child welfare professionals exploring their permanency decisions with regards to Looked after Children.

This paper argues that the Commonwealth Government should introduce a nationally consistent extended care system that would require all jurisdictions to provide a minimum standard of support until at least 21 years of age.

In this chapter of Reforming Child Welfare in the Post-Soviet Space, the authors analyse how children in foster care in Russia perceive their experiences in foster families through the use of biographies.

The purpose of this critically appraised topic was to analyze the effectiveness of transitional programming for youth leaving the foster care system on increasing abilities of community integration.

This article provides an empirically grounded conceptual–theoretical model of disproportionate representation and burden of psychological comorbidities experienced by sexual and gender minority youth (SGMY) in the foster care system in the US.

The purpose of this study was to present an illustrative test of whether an algorithmic decision aid could be used to identify youth at risk of exiting foster care without permanency.

In this paper, authors demonstrate how a structured functional well-being assessment can be used with the custody population to promote an understanding of behavioral health needs, inform case planning, and measure functional improvement over time.

This article offers an account of the authors’ experiences as foster carers for an unaccompanied asylum seeker (and through him, supporting other asylum-seeking boys).

The authors of this chapter from Reforming Child Welfare in the Post-Soviet Space introduce the ongoing child welfare reforms in Russia and consider the international and national context, as well as the main drivers of these reforms and their current results.

This chapter from the Routledge Handbook of Family Law and Policy examines how permanency for children is achieved in New Zealand in the child protection context.

For this study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 27 foster children placed in long-term family foster care about their experiences regarding “school.”

This webinar series, by and for members of Transforming Children's Care, brings together experts from our community to discuss a range of relevant topics identified by members as priorities for learning and exchange. View previous and upcoming webinars below.

The authors of this study sought to understand how experiences within the workforce could improve overall working conditions, and thus outcomes for staff and children.

This second volume of the special issue “Protecting children from maltreatment during COVID-19" is a continuation of the first and comprises studies intended to address two core questions: (1) how does COVID-19 impact the rates of child maltreatment (CM); and (2) how does COVID-19 impact the delivery of child protective service responses.

An Australian research project explored the experience and support needs of young kinship carers and children in their care through analysis of census data and in‐depth interviews with young kinship carers and children/young people. This article describes the views of 16 young people.

In this study, the authors aimed to examine factors associated with intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment and quantify its extent in a population sample over a 30-year period in South Australia.

The current discussion paper explored the impact of COVID-19 on child maltreatment reports and CPS responses by comparing countries using available population data.

The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) program is Ghana's first social protection program to provide cash and health insurance to the poor and vulnerable. This study looks beyond the direct impact of the program and examines the indirect impacts on labor transitions as well as the engagement of children and the elderly in the labor market.

This catalogue is an easy-to-use collection of lessons learned from Child Protection innovations and adaptations that were implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is primarily intended for use by Save the Children and partner Child Protection staff at country level.

Through the MINT – Mentoring for Integration of third country national children affected by migration project, Terre des hommes and its partners aimed to empower refugee and migrant children, as well as European youth, to engage in new integration activities. This final Framework sets out guidelines drawn from existing documents and recognised good practice, as well as being informed by the experience of implementation.

In this article, researchers Philip Fisher, Joan Lombardi, and Nat Kendall-Taylor present data from the RAPID-EC U.S. national survey of families with young children and look back at three overarching findings from the first year of the survey.

This qualitative study addresses the question: In the context of transitioning from out-of-home care, what reflexive meanings do ‘avowedly’ self-reliant individuals attribute to current social support and social relationships?

The current study assessed the efficacy of the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up intervention for reducing behavior problems in 122 children adopted internationally.

This guide analyses the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) and the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) through a child rights lens and outlines the measures foreseen in these documents (the Global Compacts) for the protection of the rights of the child.

This study examined the mental health of Middle Eastern male unaccompanied refugee adolescents in Germany in relation to the mental health of accompanied refugee peers, first- and second-generation immigrant and native peers.

Analyzing unique data from the 2017 Myanmar Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren Survey, this study examines the extent to which the middle generation's cross-border and internal migration are associated with caregiving intensity, perception towards grandchild care, and psychological well-being among grandparents.

This policy brief presents a list of recommendations for U.S. policymakers to transform the child welfare system by prioritizing maltreatment prevention, racial equity, and child and family well-being.

This brief is part of a series that shares strategies used by organizations that serve youth and young adults who have been involved in the child welfare system and are at risk of homelessness. It examines a multi-phase grant program to build the evidence base on what works to prevent homelessness among youth and young adults who have been involved in the child welfare system in the U.S.

This book introduces general topics on human rights and attachment, as well as a country-specific in-depth analysis of the legal and policy imperatives guiding adoptions from care, with a particular interest on the rights of children and their care-taking adults, including their birth parents

This article argues that the U.S. Congress should make changes to extend protections under Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS). These implementations would give effect to the legislative intent behind SIJS, which is to protect the particularly vulnerable group of unaccompanied children and youth.

This paper fills a gap in specialized knowledge regarding continuing professional development (CPD) in social work in Romania by examining how child protection Romanian social workers experience CPD throughout their professional lives.

In the present study, the authors explored the adult-child interactions that took place in 116 families from Spain: 28 long-term non-kin foster families, 34 adoptive families, and a community comparison group made up of 54 families.

This report summarizes findings from a mixed-methods case study of innovations and challenges within four Bethany foster care locations in the U.S.: Atlanta, Georgia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Detroit, Michigan; and Grand Rapids, Michigan.

In this webinar, prevention experts discuss the process, experiences, and challenges of the ongoing integration of IPV prevention and gender into the Investing in Children and their Societies (ICS) Skilful Parenting Programme, and inclusion of VAC in the Indashyikirwa couples IPV prevention programme.

In this webinar, UNICEF’s Lauren Rumble and Alessandra Guedes describe how violence in childhood is gendered, introduce the links between violence against women and children, and share effective gender-transformative strategies.

This Independent Expert Report is concerned with challenges experienced by Eritrean refugees in Europe in the context of family reunification processes, in particular those relating to strict documentary requirements demanded by some EU Member States, in particular Germany.

The Ngulluk Koolunga Ngulluk Koort (Our Children Our Heart) project conducted extensive Elder and community consultation to develop principles and practice recommendations for child protection governance in Western Australia. The authors of this paper explore these principles and practice recommendations and highlight the need for culturally safe community consultation and governance with a focus on repairing damage incurred by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community from past child protection policies.

This study aimed to better understand the role that Court-Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) play in the lives of transition-age youth (TAY) by asking participants about the nature of their relationships with their CASAs, and the extent to which their CASAs helped prepare them for independent living.

This study used community‐participatory qualitative methods to deeply explore the lived experiences and emotional repercussions of family separation and reunification.

This paper explores whether children removed from kinship placement should be considered trafficked children by presenting the experiences of some children in kinship placement in Nigeria.

Through an analysis of the impact of the pandemic on the Italian and Greek reception systems and social interventions with unaccompanied minors (UAMs), the authors of this study utilised a multiple embedded case study approach within a comparative analysis, to identify key changes in the main services which should be guaranteed to minors—namely, hosting/housing, guardianship, foster care, family/relatives reunification, school integration, language, job training for care leaving, and preparation for leaving care after 18 years.

A systematic review was conducted to examine the effectiveness of interventions and practice models for improving health and psychosocial outcomes of young people in residential care and to identify relevant knowledge gaps.

This paper suggests a new framework, Trauma-informed Foster Care that was developed to reflect the experience of the Irish foster care system, may be helpful to support more collaborative practices between foster carers and social workers in an Irish context.

The objective of this article is to demonstrate brain changes and their functional repercussions using magnetic resonance imaging in people exposed to chronic child abuse.

This paper examines the lived experiences of children who interacted with tourists in a performance-based orphanage in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

In this How We Care series webinar, Family for Every Child members CPTCSA (Philippines), Paicabi (Chile) and Butterflies (India) come together to discuss the work they are doing to address child sexual abuse in their contexts.

In this first event of Family for Every Child's How We Care series, Family Members CINDI (South Africa), Conacmi (Guatemala) and Uyisenga Ni Imanzi (Rwanda) shared their approaches and experiences of providing psychosocial support to children and families during the COVID-19 crisis.

Après deux années de travail intense, la Commission spéciale sur les droits des enfants et la protection de la jeunesse (CSDEPJ) présente publiquement avec beaucoup de fébrilité son rapport final.

This webinar heard from three of Family for Every Child's member organisations about their programmes to both integrate and reintegrate children on the move.

In this How We Care series webinar, Family for Every Child presented the programming of three CSOs on how they are supporting kin carers and the vulnerable children in their care, in their respective regions.

The research team that authored this article wanted to know if childhood maltreatment directly causes poor mental and physical health.

Child welfare professionals have a deep and often quiet impact on children’s lives—working to connect families with resources, determining appropriate placements, and responding around the clock to address emergencies.

This is a PowerPoint presentation by Nathan Linsk from the April 2014 Symposium “Supporting Families, Building a Better Tomorrow for Children: The Role of the Social Service Workforce” hosted by the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance.

The Reconstructing Children’s Rights Institute is an online institute about dismantling racism, neo-colonialism, and patriarchy in humanitarian and development efforts to protect children and support families.

This issue brief surveys the existing literature based on the limited available data to highlight areas of urgent concern for children on the move as they navigate life during the pandemic, examined through the lens of gender.

This study utilizes narrative and quantitative synthesis to review the scientific evidence on the associations between growing up in SOS villages and child development in various domains. Results showed developmental delays of SOS children compared with their peers in families. Compared to children in typical institutions SOS children do better on mental health but worse on physical growth. The preliminary evidence suggests that SOS Children’s Villages should move away from institutional arrangements to family care.

This paper proposes a comprehensive, multisectoral, multilevel life-course conceptualisation of human capital development by building on the Nurturing Care Framework (NCF), originally developed for the foundational period of growth and development through the age 3 years.

A Plataforma 3R é liderada pela Rede CAME, Rede da Criança e ROSC, integrando oito parceiros (ADRA, ChildFund, Diakonia, FDC, Right to Play, Save the Children, SOS-Aldeia da Criança e Terre des Hommes), é uma inciativa conjunta que desenvolve advocacia em prol dos direitos da criança, reforçando

Nós, as Organizações da Sociedade Civil (OSCs) que lutamos por direitos humanos, vimos juntar-nos aos protestos contra o abuso de poder, corrupção e crimes sexuais contra mulheres que foram expostos na Escola Prática da Polícia em Matalane.

No ano de 2019, o mundo foi assolado pela eclosão do novo Coronavírus com os primeiros casos detectados na China.

The purpose of this report is to provide analysis and policy implications to assist the African Union (AU), Regional Economic Communities (RECs), Member States and Development Partners in decision-making and in the implementation of peace and security related instruments.

Este estudo sobre o impacto das uniões prematuras na educação, saúde e nutrição, da iniciativa da Rede da Sociedade Civil para os Direitos da Criança (ROSC) e realizado no âmbito das actividades da Coligação para a Eliminação dos Casamentos Prematuros (CECAP), foi elaborado com quatro finalidades

Desde os primeiros anos de independência nacional, em 1975, o objectivo central da política educativa de Moçambique tem sido o de assegurar que todas as crianças em idade escolar tenham acesso à escola e nela permaneçam até concluírem a educação básica.

Nos finais de 2019, a China presenciou uma onda de mortes devido a eclosão do novo coronavírus, tendo-se alastrado para outros países no início de 2020 incluindo Moçambique, o que levou a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) a declará-lo pandemia mundial.

Moçambique tinha um sistema de saúde já tenso mesmo antes da chegada da COVID19 e, recentemente, teve que concentrar os seus esforços e priorizar recursos para responder ao impacto do vírus.

Medidas preventivas e de mitigação do impacto do COVID-19 nos grupos vulneráveis e de alto risco entre os beneficiários do PSSB.

A presente folha informativa foi pensada para facilitar a compreensão de problemas que afetam a vida de mulheres e meninas a partir de uma perspetiva de direitos
humanos.

Este trabalho teve por objectivo analisar e compreender a magnitude, tendências, determinantes e impactos do casamento prematuro e da gravidez precoce, com o propósito de obter informações para a concepção de uma política nacional.

Âmbito de aplicação: O âmbito deste resumo temático é examinar casos de uniões prematuras registados pela Linha Fala Criança, abrangendo o período de Fevereiro de 2018 a Novembro de 2020.

A Constituição da República de Moçambique consagra a educação como um direito e dever fundamental de cada criança, que deve ser oferecida num ambiente seguro, propiciando a aprendizagem.

Nesta pesquisa temos como objectivos centrais:
1. Identificar no contexto mundial, regional e nacional quais são as estratégias e as políticas públicas relativamente à situação das raparigas e mulheres.

Este resumo é para os parceiros de desenvolvimento, incluindo o governo e a sociedade civil. Apresenta recomendações e recursos para responder às necessidades das raparigas, durante a crise de COVID-19 e no período de recuperação.

Este Manual é o resultado do trabalho de três organizações que partilham a necessidade de desenvolver uma estratégia para a protecção dos direitos das crianças migrantes. RELAF, Save the Children e UNICEF produziram este documento como um instrumento para as melhorias necessárias na matéria, em particular no que diz respeito à formação dos operadores técnicos e profissionais responsáveis pela protecção dos direitos das crianças migrantes.

A Estratégia de Protecção da Criança define a contribuição do UNICEF para os esforços nacionais e internacionais para cumprir com os direitos de protecção às crianças e para alcançar os Objectivos de Desenvolvimento do Milénio, no contexto do Plano Estratégico do UNICEF de Médio Prazo (PEMP) para 2006-2009.

This study explores issues on post-adoption services in intercountry adoptions based on the perspectives of adoption professionals from Taiwan and Australia.

This study examined the longitudinal association of depressive symptoms with grandchild care intensity and whether the association varies by household structure, residential area, and gender for Chinese grandparents.

This mixed-methods study used an integrated approach to investigate the drivers that impact the transition from student to child welfare professional and factors that motivated a highly trained cohort of child welfare professionals to stay or leave the child welfare workforce (post one–year employment).

This paper explores the history of the rights movement of young people in care in England between 1973 and 2011.

This paper aims to promote thinking about care leave leaving from a historical perspective.

This paper explores discourses that have informed debates concerning care leavers in Romania over the last 50 years to understand why rights‐based reforms introduced in the mid‐2000s have been difficult to implement.

In a qualitative study in Switzerland, the authors of this article have conducted 37 narrative interviews with people who experienced residential care between 1950 and 1990. The analysis was based on a reconstructive life course perspective and grounded theory.

The article discusses two previously published articles by the author and two co‐authors, where the topics are the history of leaving care support in Norway and how the Nordic welfare model may represent a problematic frame for leaving care support.

This paper, based on an extensive desk review, chronologically examines the evolution of aftercare laws and practices in India along with the factors that contributed to the rise of institutional care.

Este documento ofrece guía en conducir un mapeo comunitario, una etapa en la creación de un sistema para atender a los niños y a las familias vulnerables.

This document provides guidance on how to conduct a community mapping, a step in building a system to care for vulnerable children and families.

ស្របពេលដែលកើតមានឡើងនូវការឆ្លងរីករាលដាលនៃជំងឺកូវីដ-១៩ក្នុងសហគមន៍ ហើយសាលារៀន ត្រូវបានបិទទ្វារសារជាថ្មីនៅតាមបណ្តារាជធានីខេត្តផ្សេងៗនៅទូទាំងប្រទេសកម្ពុជា កុមារភាគច្រើនត្រូវនៅឃ្លាតឆ្ងាយពីមិត្តភក្តិម្តងទៀត និងមិនអាចរីករាយជាមួយសកម្មភាពដែលពួកគេធ្លាប់មាន។ នេះគឺជាវីដេអូខ្លីមួយដែលអប់រំអំពីគន្លឹះសំខាន់ៗចំនួនប្រាំ ដើម្បីលើកកម្ពស់សុខុមាលភាពផ្លូវចិត្តរបស់កុមារ នៅក្នុងពេលវេលាដ៏លំបាកមួយនេះ! សូមទស្សនា និងចែករំលែកបន្តទៅកាន់អ្នកដែលអ្នកគិតថា ពួកគេកំពុងត្រូវការចំណេះដឹងទាំងនេះ។ សូមរក្សាសុវត្ថិភាពរបស់ខ្លួនឱ្យបានខ្ជាប់ខ្ជួនគ្រប់ពេលវេលា!

ស្របពេល​ដែលកើតមានឡើងនូវការរីករាលដាលនៃជំងឺកូវីដ-១៩ក្នុងសហគមន៍នៅទូទាំងប្រទេសកម្ពុជា យើងសូមចែករំលែកនូវវីដេអូមួយ ស្តីពីការគាំទ្រដល់បុគ្គលិកកាន់ករណី ក្នុងការធានាថា កុមារ និងគ្រួសារពួកគេ ដែលកំពុងទទួលការគាំទ្រពីយើង រួមទាំងខ្លួនបុគ្គលិកផ្ទាល់មានសុវត្ថិភាព។ យើងសង្ឃឹមថាវីដេអូខ្លីនេះ នឹងផ្តល់ជាសារប្រយោជន៍ដល់អ្នក និងក្រុមការងារ។ សូមថ្លែងអំណរគុណដល់ក្រសួងសង្គមកិច្ច អតីតយុទ្ធជន និងយុវនីតិសម្បទា សម្រាប់ការដឹកនាំការផលិត ដើម្បីឱ្យវីដេអូនេះសមស្របជាមួយគោលការណ៍ណែនាំ ស្តីពីការគ្រប់គ្រងករណីក្នុងអំឡុងពេលជំងឺកូវីដ១៩។ សូមរក្សាសុវត្ថិភាពរបស់ខ្លួនឱ្យបានខ្ជាប់ខ្ជួនគ្រប់ពេលវេលា។

អង្គការ Save the Children រួមជាមួយអង្គការដៃគូចំនួន៧ កំពុងជួយលើកកម្ពស់សមត្ថភាពរបស់គ្រួសារទទួលផលក្នុងការថែទាំកូនៗរបស់ពួកគេ ដើម្បីសម្រេចឱ្យបាននូវសមទ្ធិផលនៃកិច្ចការពារកុមារប្រកបដោយភាពវិជ្ជមាន។ ដោយមានការគាំទ្រពីទីភ្នាក់ងារជំនួយសហរដ្ឋអាមេរិកដើម្បីការអភិវឌ្ឃអន្តរជាតិ (USAID) និងសហភាពអឺរ៉ុប គម្រោង FCF|REACT កំពុងផ្តល់នូវការឧបត្ថម្ភសាច់ប្រាក់ប្រចាំខែ និងផ្តល់ការគាំទ្រដល់អ្នកផ្តល់ការថែទាំក្នុងការចាត់អាទិភាពនូវការចំណាយរបស់ពួកគេដើម្បីឧត្តមប្រយោជន៍របស់កូនៗ។ មាននៅលើ  

By taking this course, you will be able to prioritise issues in children’s development and define the changes you want to see in parents, make decisions about how to deliver a programme, and start to develop strategies and content for your parenting programme.  

This course is a resource for parents or those who work with parents of young children to support them to provide brain-building experiences and nurturing care.