Florence Martin, Director of Better Care Network presented at the National Consultation to Accelerate Care Reform in Zambia on the work that BCN does globally, provided a summary of cross country and regional learning on on child care reform, and some of the necessary steps and considerations for care reform. A second presentation follows, highlighting the findings from an analysis of children's care and living arrangements based on data from the Zambia DHS 2013-2014.

This report from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University provides an overview of the science of early childhood development, particularly brain development and the impacts that early experiences have on brain development.

This paper presents selectively on the findings of two separate but related qualitative Irish studies exploring relationship-based approaches in residential child care practice, from the perspectives of both residential child care workers and young care leavers.

This special issue of the Journal of Global Social Welfare grew out of a 2014 symposium co-hosted by the Better Care Network and the 

This presentation from Innocenti’s Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support describes gender roles in parenting in Ethiopia, the missing role of fathers in parenting, legal/policy provisions of family support, and some work being done to engage fathers.

This presentation from Innocenti’s Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support describes Promundo’s approach to engaging men as fathers and caregivers of children.

Ese video explica el sistema de cuidado alternativo en Argentina, particularmente la utilización de “hogares convivenciales,” donde viven juntos muchos niños y niñas separados de sus familias y el trabajo de DONCEL a ayudar a esos niños y niñas.

This presentation from Innocenti’s Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support discusses family separation, including the factors leading to it, global data on children’s living situations and how it relates to preventing separation.

This presentation from Innocenti’s Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support includes an overview of family trends in the CEE/CIS region, some promising practices in social protection, and thoughts for going forward.

This presentation from Innocenti’s Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support focuses on parenting interventions for the wellbeing of children and families in an HIV/AIDS context.

This presentation from  Innocenti’s Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support focuses on the risks facing, and the needs of, poor families in Brazil.

This presentation from Innocenti’s Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support discusses a study on the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on brain development.

This presentation from Innocenti’s Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support focuses on informal supports for families and on incorporating research into practice. 

The presentation from Innocenti’s Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support focuses on the need for parenting interventions for preventing teenage sexual violence.

This presentation from Innocenti’s Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support describes Save the Children’s efforts to promote family strengthening and two case studies of family strengthening programs at work.

This presentation from Innocenti’s Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support describes the development of parenting support policy in Croatia.

This presentation from Innocenti’s Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support provides an overview of the National Approach to Parenting in Jamaica and the lessons learned from the program.

This presentation by Jasmina Byrne and Alice Margaria of Innocenti, was given at Innocenti’s Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support on 26-27 May 2014. 

This presentation by Mary Daly, a professor in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford, was given at Innocenti’s Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support on 26-27 May 2014.

This report includes an outline of the discussion, activities, and conclusions from a two-day expert consultation on family and parenting support, organized by Innocenti, the UNICEF Office of Research.

This comment from the Lancet discusses the rising rate of suicide among adolescent girls worldwide.

In this study, clinical program directors from 59 residential treatment facilities in the US responded to an online survey addressing the representation of adopted youth currently being served by their organization, the extent to which adoption issues are incorporated into clinical intake and treatment processes, and the training needs of clinical staff related to adoption.

This paper aruges that child welfare agencies (in the US) have an obligation to protect children’s physical and mental well-being, and the social work profession is uniquely qualified to deliver evidence-based obesity mitigation efforts among children in care.

Las evidencias presentadas en este documento fueron elaboradas a partir de una investigación que se propuso realizar una primera aproximación a la situación de los jóvenes sin cuidados parentales frente al egreso. 

This study revealed, through their narrations, the changes in the lived experiences of children who resided in residential childcare services regarding the going home process in a Chinese context. 

This Act was established by the Government of Zanzibar to provide for the rights and best interests of the child and to ensure the protection, rights, and care of the child.

A detailed explanation of the problems associated with volunteering in orphanages (residential care centers). 

To consider the appropriateness of baby hatches, this article presents and examines the validity of each major objection to establishing baby hatches.

This article explores the implementation of a system in Malaysia, where mothers or guardians who choose to abandon their baby are enabled to do so anonymously within a safe environment.

This bibliography, prepared by Professor David Powers of Cornell University, includes a list of resources and articles related to adoption within the context of Islam. 

This report was conducted to provide an extensive assessment designed to map the existing child protection system in Zambia. 

This report, prepared for UNICEF East and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) assesses capacity of Malawi, South Africa, Swaziland and Zambia to manage alternative care systems for children. 

This report outlines the global context that the Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESAR) is operating within, with respect to child protection. 

This Act makes provisions for “the custody and protection of juveniles in need of care in Zambia; to provide for the correction of juvenile delinquents; and to provide for matters incidental to or connected with the foregoing.”

This handbook offers a compendium of Zambian juvenile law, including the processing of juveniles in the criminal justice system.

This brochure outlines the Public Welfare Assistance Scheme, including its objectives, types of assistance provided, social and educational support provided, eligibility and how to access services.

This brochure outlines adoption policy and procedure in Zambia, including a definition of adoption, how it works, its limitations, requirements for adopting a child, and other conditions.

This brochure outlines the Public Welfare Assistance Scheme, including services related to inspection of child-care facilities and adoption.

This brochure contains information about foster care in Zambia, including the definition of foster care, its limitations, its importance, how to become a foster carer and how foster licenses are granted. 

This document outlines an overarching National Health Policy for Zambia.

The national Adolescent Health Strategic Plan 2011 to 2015 (ADH-SP 2011- 2015) for Zambia, seeks to outline the strategic framework for promoting the planning, organization and delivery of appropriate, accessible, efficient and effective Adolescent Friendly Health Services (ADFHS) throughout the country.

This document is the National Health Strategic Plan 2011 to 2015 (NHSP 2011-15) for Zambia.

This Road Map is aimed at accelerating “the reduction of maternal, newborn and child mortality rates sufficiently in order to enable Zambia attain the set MDGs by 2015.”

In order to strengthen the national response to child marriage, the Government of Zambia developed a five-year National Strategy on Ending Child Marriage (2016-2021). 

This fact sheet by Save the Children provides an overview of the current status of national child protection systems in Zambia. 

This Act provides for the co-ordination and registration of non-governmental organisations in Zambia.

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

This paper reflects upon lessons learned by Retrak and explores the challenges and the benefits of developing a body of evidence on reintegration good practice. 

This study explores the determinants of child-parent separation and the consequences of existing alternative care arrangements from the perspectives of adults and young people in Laos.

This manuscript reviews the issues facing children outside of households and argues for the importance of gathering robust data about this population to formulate responsive policies and services, mobilize resources, and foster accountability.

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact that the use of a Community Caregiver service provision model had on outcomes for children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS in Côte d’Ivoire. 

This paper examines whether policies that guide the termination of parental rights correspond to state adoption rate differences in the United States.

The purpose of this commentary is to articulate why focusing on both program and context offers policymakers a more promising pathway for achieving meaningful and sustainable improvements in a child’s well-being and healthy development.

This editorial piece from the Journal of Global Social Welfare introduces the journal's special issue on measuring children’s care arrangements.

This paper offers an analysis on orphanhood and living arrangements data based on available DHS and MICS surveys from 77 countries from sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Africa/West Asia/and Europe, Central Asia, and South and Southeast Asia.

Given the importance of children’s care arrangements for their development, this essay summarizes efforts to measure trends in children’s care arrangements in two regions of the world—Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. 

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Using data from a national longitudinal survey of children referred to child protective services (NSCAW II), this article compares behavioral, child/caregiver relationship, and school performance outcomes for children residing in kinship and nonkinship settings.

This participatory research confirms that kinship care is widely practiced in many Kenyan communities as noted through the participatory engagement with communities in Busia County. 

In this study, clinical program directors from 59 residential treatment facilities in the US responded to an online survey addressing the representation of adopted youth currently being served by their organization, the extent to which adoption issues are incorporated into clinical intake and treatment processes, and the training needs of clinical staff related to adoption.

This study was undertaken to build knowledge on alternative care practices, especially informal kinship care, prevalent in the West and Central Africa. 

This article analyses on the phenomenon of orphanage tourism/ childcare tourism in Cambodia and its social and economic impacts by interviewing the managers directors or volunteer coordinators of nine residential care facilities and to develop recommendations and guidelines for the residential care centres and volunteer organisations to improve the volunteering practice in the future.

This article presents an overview of the Polish system of foster welfare, its regulations by law and directions for further transformation. 

The Adolescence Research Digest is a new quarterly publication by UNICEF’s Office of Research-Innocenti. This synthesizes the latest research evidence, resources and news related to adolescent well-being in low- and middle-income countries. 

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

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.

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. 

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 

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. 

In this book, Laury Oaks discusses “Baby safe haven” laws in the United States and the attitudes towards women who use baby safe havens.

In this letter to the editor, the authors express their support for the continued use of “baby hatches” in China. 

In this article, the author offers a response to the recommendations made to the government of the Czech Republic by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

This article explores the use of baby boxes in Germany and the Netherlands.

Analyzing Malaysian and international practices in regards to “baby-dumping,” the authors of this research article are raising awareness of the punitive approach of the criminal justice system in handling baby dumping cases in Malaysia and other countries, as well as the limited, although important, prevention opportunities.

This dissertation explores the experiences and representations of child abandonment in urban Johannesburg, South Africa. 

This article describes research conducted in Malaysia on young people’s perceptions of “baby dumping,” or the abandonment of newborns and infants, a phenomenon that has become a “serious issue” in Malaysia. 

Zanzibar’s Department of Social Welfare - a department within the Ministry of Empowerment, Social Welfare, Youth, Women and Children - along with Save the Children UK and SOS Children’s Villages undertook a rapid assessment of residential care institutions in Zanzibar in an effort to provide preliminary information to assist the Department of Social Welfare in licensing of all children’s homes in Zanzibar.

These DRAFT Regulations on the Care and Protection of Children of the Children’s Act of Zanzibar offer a definition of a child in need of protection and outline the general duties of the Department of Social Welfare in regards to providing that protection.

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 

The study used pre-existing data on the most vulnerable children’s (MVC’s) and their guardians’ socio-demographic information and the services they received from Pastoral Activities and Services for People With AIDS Dar es Salaam Archdiocese (PASADA) services agency in Tanzania. 

The purpose of this study was to investigate the coping strategies of caregivers of HIV/AIDS orphans.

In this qualitative study, 35 experienced foster parents in the US were interviewed "explored strategies that facilitate the functional adaptation of children transitioning into their care."

This document highlights examples of good practices in parenting and family strengthening interventions based on evaluations of programs and initiatives throughout Africa.

This toolkit is designed to increase knowledge of the rights and duties provided in the ACRWC and ACERWC, educate government officials on the obligations of State Parties and inform civil society actors on the contents of the Charter as well as the mechanisms for engaging with the ACERWC.

This Implementation Handbook offers explanation and analysis of the articles in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The aim of the handbook is to be a tool for implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and to provide additional insight and interpretation. 

This study explores the association of caregiver and child characteristics with educational outcomes for orphaned and abandoned children (OAC) in India.

This study was conducted to understand the lived experiences of street children and adolescents.

This study tests the psychometric properties and construct validity of the Family Needs Scale using sample of 303 informal kinship families recruited through local child welfare and social services in New York, USA.

This study used cross-sectional data from 1848 South African children aged 9–13 to address three questions: whether CBOs are reaching those who are most vulnerable, whether attending these organizations is associated with greater psychosocial wellbeing, and how they might work.

The objective of this study was to develop and test an instrument to measure self-representation of youths in residential care in Portugal. 

The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences and outcomes of children in the foster care system in the United States who were removed from their homes at least partially in relation to their parent's or caretaker's disability. 

This systematic review identified research studies examining factors associated with service use among kinship caregivers in the US using key search terms in five computerized bibliographic databases and four journals. 

This study from Singapore examined the association of two factors — children's strengths and placement type, with outcomes at two time-points during out-of-home care. 

This study, based on a sample of 1,324 Jewish and Arab adolescents aged 11–19 in 32 RCSs, examines the prevalence and multilevel correlates of verbal (such as cursing) and indirect (such as social exclusion) forms of victimization by peers in residential care facilities.