This article explores the opportunities social workers have to involve care-experienced individuals in participatory training and academic opportunities by sharing the stories of two young women with care experience who were attending the University of Rome.
This commentary discusses the limitations of the current Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) research and the need to also consider social and methodological aspects of adversity. The importance of considering protective factors is also discussed.
This study explores the role that transitional centers in Armenia play in the transitioning process of leaving institutional care and entering independent adulthood.
This U.S.-based study aimed to get recommendations from stakeholders with lived and/or professional experience in foster care to understand how to increase participation in research and how to capture a broader representation of those impacted.
This article addresses the complex dynamics surrounding unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the UK.
This study aimed to investigate the direct impact of perceived social support, basic need services, and Psychological Capital on the mental health of children in childcare settings in Ethiopia.
This article explores the journey of foster care in India from 2010 to 2024 as an analysis and commentary on the substantive changes between the foster care 2016 model guidelines and the newly released foster care 2024 guidelines.
This study aims to examine how parental substance use affects outcomes of Australian children in out-of-home care, adjusting for key demographic, social and system factors.
This South Africa-based paper aims to provide practice guidelines for leaving care that would be useful in real-world settings.
The aim of this review is to articulate the key mechanisms through which shared decision-making meetings can work to help keep children safely out of care and at home. Data from the literature was supplemented with consultation to ensure relevance to the UK setting.
This article provides a unique comparison of four non-professional stakeholder groups involved with dependency courts overseeing child protective services cases in the state of Maryland in the United States.
This qualitative study of cluster foster parents in Mpumalanga, South Africa, revealed that they are faced with extreme challenges such as lack of support, knowledge, and limitation of resources in fostering children with special needs.
This paper is based on a qualitative study that collected data from 24 caregivers working at four childcare institutions in Harare, Zimbabwe. Findings from the study revealed that challenges experienced by caregivers include high caseloads and lack of resources, regulations which do not promote proper child development, inadequate training for caregivers, and nonexistence of a representative body for caregivers and the existence of multiple reporting systems for children.
This scoping review identified and synthesized evidence from studies across the globe examining adult justice system contact among individuals who have experienced child protection system involvement (including placement in out-of-home care [OOHC]).
This research aimed to explore the lived experiences of young care leavers in Iran and their perceptions and views of their transitioning to the world outside of home care.
This study used a qualitative methodology to explore the lived experiences of five Trinidad and Tobago mothers stranded abroad and shows the ways in which the COVID-19 border closures altered their caregiving practices with children left behind.
This study aimed to analyze the narratives of social educators regarding their practices within a foster care institution for children and adolescents in South Brazil.
This study seeks to evaluate the real-world experiences, challenges, and best practices in implementing parent support programs in Botswana.
This interdisciplinary work brings together voices from the legal realm, the academic world, and the on-the-ground experiences of activists and practitioners. At the heart of these narratives lies a crucial debate: the tension between harm-reduction strategies and abolition.
This paper draws on the experiences of children and young people (CYP) who have self-placed in out-of-home care (OOHC) in Queensland (Australia) and the impact of that choice on their participation in decision-making.
This study examined case studies highlighting specific issues or exemplary practices in child protection in Kazakhstan, providing a thorough, multidimensional analysis of child rights and protection in the country.
This Human Rights Watch report documents how children with disabilities in Gaza face dangerous situations and additional difficulties as they struggle to comply with frequent evacuation orders and a lack of effective advance warning of attacks.
This is the Executive Summary of the World Social Protection Report 2024-26: Universal Social Protection for Climate Action and a Just Transition which provides a global overview of progress made around the world since 2015 in extending social protection and building rights-based social protection systems. It calls on policymakers, social partners and other stakeholders to accelerate their efforts to simultaneously close protection gaps and realize climate ambitions.
With a sharp focus on the climate crisis, this report provides a global overview of progress made around the world since 2015 in extending social protection and building rights-based social protection systems. In doing so, it makes an essential contribution to the monitoring framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. And it calls on policymakers, social partners and other stakeholders to accelerate their efforts to simultaneously close protection gaps and realize climate ambitions.
