In this Technical Report, the authors review the available knowledge on the effects of armed conflict on children and support the recommendations in the accompanying Policy Statement on children and armed conflict.

This paper is based on findings from an Irish study of permanence and stability outcomes for children in long-term care which involved biographical narrative interviews with 27 children, young people, parents and foster carers.

The question in the title is addressed by exploring the challenges inherent in providing care for children who are unable to live with their birth families.

This paper reviews research on child maltreatment over a recent 10-year span to identify trends in maltreatment assessment and operationalization.

This paper focuses on how the Family Assessment for Least Developed Countries (FA-LDC) instrument can be used as evidenced-based practice to assist social workers in statutory investigations.

This chapter examines Global North and South similarities in children and young people’s reactions to school-led child protection programmes.

This study examined adopted adolescents’ levels of attachment security to parents and aggressiveness as compared to those of community nonadopted adolescents and of clinical nonadopted adolescents.

This research provides insight into the current intervention strategies used by social workers in emergency child protection, whereby children are removed from their caregivers as a result of abuse and are placed at child and youth care centres.

This book reviews changes in policy and practices that affected the generation of young people who grew up in state care in China in the last 20 years.

The present study analyzes differences between perceived social support from family, peers, and adult mentors in Unaccompanied refugee minors (URM), with subgroup analyses of peer and mentor support in URM with and without family contact.

This presentation can be used concurrently with Kent University's simulation course, it presents a case study that allows students to engage in the complex topic of child neglect.

The present research looks at the main migration patterns and trends of internal and outward migration from Ukraine trying to assess the push and pull factors for regular and irregular migration which affect children.

This paper begins with a historic review of immigration policies in the United States aimed at supporting unaccompanied migrant children.

This article re‐examines data from an evaluation of a volunteering project for care leavers in the UK.

This study tested the hypotheses that inverse relationships would exist between connectedness in three social domains (i.e., caregiver, peers, and school) and suicidal ideation over time.

This article introduces an innovative mentalization-based treatment (MBT) parenting intervention for families where children are at risk of maltreatment.

This paper from the journal of Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk discusses the experiences of parents receiving family reunification services because their children have been placed in child and youth care centres in South Africa.

The International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) is a comprehensive, multi-country study on men’s and women’s realities, practices, and attitudes with regard to gender norms, gender-equality policies, household dynamics, caregiving and fatherhood, domestic violence, sexual diversity, health, and economic stress, among other topics.

In this study from PLoS ONE, the relationship between family structure and positive adolescent sexual behaviour, measured as delay in sexual debut, was examined using the bioecological theory framed by a risk and resilience perspective. After controlling for other covariates, the study found that adolescents living with neither parent had lower odds of delaying sexual debut although results were only significant for males.

This paper from the Human Resource Management Review provides a typology that can be applied to the transnational family as a theoretical lens through which diverse forms of transnational families can be understood.

This chapter from Migration between Africa and Europe investigates family life in the context of international migration between Ghana and Europe. The chapter finds that transnational family forms, in which one or more members of the nuclear family are living abroad while the other members remain in the home or another country, are common.

In this chapter from the Handbook of migration and globalisation, the authors examine the relationship between family, globalisation and migration through the lens of care, focusing specifically on the experiences of transnational families.

The Global Migration Indicators 2018 report is a snapshot of what we know about migration today. The report reviews key trends in global migration, including sections on remittances and the migration of women and children, and highlights the relevant SDGs and Global Compact objectives.

This chapter from Residential Child and Youth Care in a Developing World: Global Perspectives focuses on the institutional care of children and young people deemed ‘at risk’ according to current Malaysian law on child welfare: Malaysian Child Act (2001).

This paper explores how unaccompanied refugee children from Syria made their way to destination countries and how they become unaccompanied and the consequences of being unaccompanied.

This review of secondary sources refers to information on child protection risks and violence against children in Mali, collected from 2016 to 2018.

The authors of this study investigated the incremental impact of adding a caregiver component to a life skills programme for adolescent girls, assessing girls’ exposure to violence (sexual and others) and caregivers’ gender attitudes and parenting behaviours.

This paper addresses the issue of human rights of vulnerable children in Sri Lanka in the wake of the civil war, global climatic change and economic recession.

In this chapter of Residential child and youth care in a developing world: Global perspectives, First Edition, the reader is introduced to residential care in Ghana.

This thesis explores the experiences and meanings that are attributed to kinship care by caregivers, young people of African descent, and social workers.

This study seeks to assess the impact of economic factors on sexual, emotional, and physical violence on Nigerian children and adolescents aged 13–24 years.

This article presents results from an investigation of the socioeconomic predictors of physical child punishment using three rounds of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) in a lower middle-income country, Viet Nam from 2006 to 2014.

This report uses local authority data from March 2017 to estimate how many UK children under the age of five are at risk of severe harm, with a particular focus on infants under the age of one. 

This practice note is drawn from the discussion and outlines key considerations and a range of measures for local authorities to take as Corporate Parents to ensure consistent and effective implementation of the regulations, now established in law.

This short document provides a summary of initial learning from data gathered for an evaluation of the Why Not? initiative in Scotland. The Why Not? initiative within Care Visions services was started in 2014 to ‘improve the way young people are supported when ageing out of care, by offering a different experience of relationships beyond care.’

This paper presents community dialogues as a participatory research and program development strategy through which developmental scientists and local community partners can collaboratively surface, discuss, address, and evaluate child protection and well-being issues in their communities.

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This article critically examines Ritualistic child sexual abuse (RCSA) as a predatory form of child maltreatment and the lack of relevant child welfare interventions in the DRC to address it.

In this retrospective audit, the authors reviewed children below sixteen years who were admitted under oral and maxillofacial surgery for incision and drainage of a dental/facial abscess, under general anaesthesia, between January 2015 and January 2017, to understand if they had experienced dental neglect.

This exploratory paper’s purpose is to determine the effect of demographic, risk, and protective factors on social-emotional development, as measured by the Ages and Stages Questionnaire Social Emotional (ASQ:SE), in children age 8 months to 5 years in out-of-home care in Ontario, Canada.

This presentation explores the developmental assessment of young children living in out-of-home care using the Ages and Stages Questionnaires® Third Edition. 

This report presents an evaluation of the family home model as part of the 'Our New Children' project in Norway, a collaborative project between SOS Children’s Villages, Asker Municipality and the Housing bank that seeks to "assess the establishment of family homes as the housing and care solution for single minor refugees."

The aim of this study was to examine associations between mindfulness and psychological factors (i.e., depression, cognitive function, positive emotion, and negative emotion) among adolescent orphans in children's care homes in India.

This study aimed to assess the specific influence of migrant mothers on early child development, especially on social–emotional problems.

On 29 August 2018, the Save the Children Child Protection Global Theme hosted a webinar entitled: Researching Violence Against Children: An Overview of Ethical Considerations.

First published in 1999, this work draws together a multi-national collection of papers, and aims to stimulate the development of policy and practice in this often neglected area.

The aim of this study was to undertake a short qualitative study of four independent supported accommodation providers commissioned by local authorities for care experienced young people in Scotland.

This study from the journal of Emerging Adulthood shares positive stories of care leavers and explores the factors that promote the successful transition to emerging adulthood for care leavers in Ghana.  

The present study analyzes the opinions of birth families, foster families and social workers responsible for supervising contact visits regarding the benefits and problems associated with contact visits.

In the present study, the authors examined the effects of two types of initial short-term placements: emergency placements (lasting 1 to 5 days) and provisional placements (lasting 6 to 60 days) on the risks of re-entry into care in the four years following reunification.

This review assesses the literature that describes the risk and protective factors for children in out-of-home care (OOHC) experiencing educational disadvantage.

This study was conducted to identify the quality of life among children deprived of family care in residential institutions in El-Beheira governorate.

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In the current study, the authors examined whether children with Child Protective Services (CPS) involvement who were in foster care had more advanced receptive vocabulary than children with CPS involvement who resided with their birth parents.

This study aimed to understand the experience of adoptive parents who have completed dyadic developmental psychotherapy (DDP) therapy.

This film from Lumos is about the people who know that there is an alternative to institutional care, and who are working hard to make it happen.

Positive Powerful Parents (PPP), an Australian self advocacy group run by and for parents with an intellectual disability, are currently running the Hand In Hand project which seeks to educate government and the community about the needs of families where a parent has an intellectual disability. This report describes the activities of the Hand In Hand Parent Meeting in Melbourne on the 19th of September 2018.

According to some estimates, a third of the adult Moldovan population is working abroad, often ‘leaving behind’ children in the care of relatives, neighbours or in orphanages. This paper from the Journal of European Studies investigates how such high migration rates affect Moldovan family life and personal definitions of identity and success.

This evaluation examined the designs and implementation processes of the cash transfer components of ChildFund’s Economic Strengthening to Keep and Reintegrate Children in Family Care (ESFAM) and AVSI Foundation’s Family Resilience (FARE) projects in Uganda and identified practical lessons for implementers.

This evaluation examined the designs and implementation processes of the saving group components of ChildFund’s Economic Strengthening to Keep and Reintegrate Children in Family Care (ESFAM) and AVSI Foundation’s Family Resilience (FARE) projects in Uganda and identified practical lessons for implementers.

The purpose of this report is to share with local and national governmental leaders about Kisumu’s successes in significantly reducing the street population within the city and to inform others of the successful (and unsuccessful) interventions deployed in order to achieve these results.

This paper examines the gendered roles of sibling position and network‐derived social capital in Mexican and Senegalese international migration.

This paper adopts a life course perspective to explore well‐being amongst youth (18–25 years) who migrated as children to the UK and France.

This study from Population, Space and Place provides the first estimates of the prevalence of parental absence via migration that are comparable across populations in contemporary Latin America.

This special issue of the journal of Population, Space and Place aims to address the gap in transnational families studies by identifying if there are common patterns and effects of transnational family life across countries and regions, using cross‐country comparative analyses.

The aim of this study was to investigate the degree to which data collection achieves screening aims (identifying scale of problem, impacting on mental health) and the potential analytic value of the dataset.

The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of depression and its associated factors among orphans in Ilu Abba Bor Zone orphanages, 2016.

This article describes and compares the Not in Employment, Education, or Training (NEET) and Education, Employment, and Training (EET) status of care leavers from Girls and Boys Town after 1 and 2 years and in relation to other outcomes.

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.

This study sought to answer the question: How do the experiences of separation and reunification shape the well‐being of immigrant children?

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.

This research seeks to address the gap in attention paid to the care of children by family friends (non-familial kinship care) in Australia.

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.

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. 

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. 

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 Lao PDR's initial reports, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review 

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.

This toolkit presents a compendium of research on how Albertans think about the issues of early childhood development, and how to increase public support for policies and programs that support healthy child development.

Este nuevo relevamiento muestra y analiza datos actualizados relativos a la cantidad de niñas, niños y adolescentes (NNyA) sin cuidados parentales en la República Argentina, los lugares de cuidado donde están alojados, las condiciones en las que viven, el organismo que decidió que fueran separados o separadas de su mamá, papá o familia ampliada, los motivos de esta separación, los tiempos de permanencia en las instituciones, los motivos de ingreso y egreso.

This toolkit is designed to help communicators in the field to translate the science of early childhood development and mental health in the Australian context, in order to increase support for evidence-based programs and policies designed to improve child and social outcomes in Australia.

The US state of Washington’s foster care system has been sending many young people in need of residential care and treatment to the Clarinda Academy, an institution in Iowa. This is a report by Disability Rights Washington (DRW) to expose the conditions and treatment experienced by Washington foster youth at this institution.

This study aimed to test the effectiveness of life skills education (LSE) and psychoeducation in the reduction of Youth Self Report (YSR) scores on institutionalized children in Kenya, using structured activities supported by trained facilitators.

The purpose of this paper is to validate measures of professional self-efficacy for detecting and responding to child abuse and neglect presentations, and then evaluate a clinical training programme for health professionals in a tertiary-level hospital in Vietnam.

This quantitative study investigated the relationship between compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction and work engagement in staff working in independent residential childcare organisations in England, Scotland and Wales.

This chapter explores how the failing system of traditional almajiri education, challenges associated with government efforts to integrate almajiri education into the formal school system, social exclusion and hostility contribute to increase the boys’ vulnerability to radicalisation and recruitment by Boko Haram.

The objective of this study was to assess the nutritional status of orphaned and non-orphaned children in Kenya.

This study reviews a series of interrelated studies on the development of children residing in institutions (i.e., orphanages) in the Russian Federation or placed with families in the USA and the Russian Federation.

This paper summarizes evidence on six perceptions associated with cash transfer programming, using eight rigorous evaluations conducted on large-scale government unconditional cash transfers in sub-Saharan Africa under the Transfer Project.

The current study examined how discrimination relates to adjustment outcomes in a sample of internationally, transracially adopted Korean Americans from the Minnesota Sibling Interaction and Behavior Study.

The current study examined family and community factors related to home visiting programme engagement in a sample of 1,024 mothers (primary caregivers, mean age 22.89 years) who participated in family support programmes funded through the US state of Georgia's Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting programme.

Reported here are findings from a recent partnership research project focused on optimizing grandparent contact and ongoing relationships with grandchildren after child safety concerns.

The report presents an evaluation of the second stage of the the Developing Independence (DI) in Out-of-home care (OOHC) pilot in Melbourne, Australia.

This systematic review aims to review studies using self-report maltreatment to capture child maltreatment prevalence rates worldwide.

This study compared the risk difference and further investigated the association between the category of mental disorders and child abuse perpetration in Taiwan.

This brief by Marta Santos Pais, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, explores the need for nurturing and violence-free early childhood, the extent of violence against children around the world, the economic costs of violence in early c

This report considers a set of key overlaps and gaps in understanding of children’s early development and perception among experts, the Kenyan public, and people who work and make decisions in the early childhood development (ECD) sector in Kenya.

This report aims to deepen knowledge about children’s early development among members of the Kenyan public and those who work in the early childhood development (ECD) field.