The Permanence and Care Excellence (PACE) programme: Improvement in practice: leading positive change for children’s services

CELCIS

This report provides an insight into the Permanence and Care Excellence (‘PACE’) programme – a Quality Improvement programme underway from 2014-2020 which engaged with local authority partnerships in 27 of the 32 Scottish local authority areas. The programme was aimed at supporting local authority partnerships across Scotland to reduce permanence planning timescales for looked after infants, children and young people using a Quality Improvement framework.

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Outcomes for Families Referred to Family Centres: Using Validated Instruments to Chart Changes in Psychological Functioning, Relationships and Children’s Coping Strategies over Time

Trevor Spratt, Lorraine Swords, Dovile Vilda - The British Journal of Social Work

This article reports on the use of a suite of validated instruments to measure the impact of services on children and their parents in receipt of services provided by an Irish Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) across their seven family centres.

A Parent’s Duty: Government’s Obligation to Youth Transitioning into Adulthood

The Representative for Children and Youth

This report looks at what is known about outcomes for young people in care transitioning into adulthood in British Columbia, with particular focus on the over-involvement of the child welfare system in the lives of First Nations, Métis, Inuit and Urban Indigenous children and youth in care. The report calls on government to enact comprehensive and lasting change for the young people in its care as they transition into adulthood.

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Assessing changes in the internal worlds of earlyand late-adopted children using the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP)

Saul Hillman, Jill Hodges, Miriam Steele, Antonella Cirasola, Kay Asquith, Jeanne Kaniuk - Adoption & Fostering

This study assesses the internal representations of three groups of children, as measured by the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP). These were: (1) a maltreated, late-adopted (MLA); (2) a non-maltreated, early-adopted (EA) sample; and (3) a non-maltreated community sample (COMM).

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Early maternal separation and development of left-behind children under 3 years of age in rural China

Mengshi Li, et al - Children and Youth Services Review

A cross-sectional study was conducted in five counties of five provinces in China to investigate the effects of age at separation and duration of maternal separation on the early development of left-behind children.

Supportive practices: perceptions of interventions targeting parents whose children are placed in out-of-home care

Emelie Shanks and Ylva Spånberger Weitz - Adoption & Fostering

This article explores birth parents’ views on their needs and perceptions of support delivered by two different interventions: one offering support to individuals and the other providing a parental group.

ДЕТСКО-РОДИТЕЛЬСКИЙ КЛУБ КАК УСЛОВИЕ ПРЕОДОЛЕНИЯ ПРОБЛЕМ ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКОЙ АДАПТАЦИИ ДЕТЕЙ В ПРИЕМНОЙ СЕМЬЕ

Dekina E.V., Kulikova T.I., Shalaginova K.S. - PSYCHOLOGY

Цель исследования состоит в изучении проблем психологической адаптации биологических детей в приемной семье и возможности детско-родительского клуба в их преодолении.

Sibling Support: The Reports of Israeli Adolescents in Residential Care

Shalhevet Attar-Schwartz - Brothers and Sisters

This study examined the self-reports of youth in Israeli residential care settings designed for youth from underprivileged backgrounds on the extent of perceived availability of support from their siblings among other sources of support, and the contribution of sibling support to various positive and negative measures of well-being and functioning.

Restructuring Institutional Care: Challenges and Coping Measures for Children and Caregivers in Post COVID-19 Era

Sudeshna Roy - Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond

This article explores the dynamics of the institutional care of the out-of-home care (OHC) children, adolescents and children who are residing in alternative care homes, childcare institutes (CCIs), foster homes and who are in conflict with law like refugees or in juvenile correctional centres.

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Material hardship and parenting stress among grandparent kinship providers during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of grandparents’ mental health

Yanfeng Xu, Qi Wu, Sue E. Levkoff, Merav Jedwab - Child Abuse & Neglect

This study examined the relationship between material hardship and parenting stress among grandparent kinship providers, and assessed grandparents’ mental health as a potential mediator to this relationship during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

Child Maltreatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Consequences of Parental Job Loss on Psychological and Physical Abuse Towards Children

Monica Lawson, Megan H. Piel, Michaela Simon - Child Abuse & Neglect

The current study investigated factors associated with child maltreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic, including parental job loss, and whether cognitive reframing moderated associations between job loss and child maltreatment.

Children on the move, including from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and people affected by COVID19

UNICEF

This edition of Humanitarian Action for Children – UNICEF’s annual humanitarian fundraising appeal – describes the ongoing crises affecting children on the move, including from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and people affected by COVID-19; the strategies that UNICEF is using to respond to these situations; and the donor support that is essential in this response.

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Children on the move and COVID-19 in Mexico and Central America

UNICEF

This edition of Humanitarian Action for Children – UNICEF’s annual humanitarian fundraising appeal – describes the ongoing crises affecting children on the move and COVID-19 in Mexico and Central America (including unaccompanied and separated children); the strategies that UNICEF is using to respond to these situations; and the donor support that is essential in this response.

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Lessons from the field: An evidence-informed resiliency model for child abuse organizations

Karen Irene Kalergis and Debra Anderson - Child Abuse & Neglect

This article reviews the research basis for the Organizational Resiliency Model (ORM) and new research supporting the model, and offers lessons learned through structured interviews with 10 child abuse leaders who piloted the ORM and continue to use it ten years later.

Preparing the child welfare workforce: Organizational commitment, identity, and desire to stay

Kathryn C. Trujillo, Lara Bruce, Annade Guzman, Carole Wilcox, Aurora Melnyk, Kathy Clark - Child Abuse & Neglect

For this study, a ten-year cohort study was conducted to understand program graduates' experiences with organizational commitment, the impact of stipends on child welfare professional identity and desire to remain in the child welfare field.

Frontline Staff Characteristics and Capacity for Trauma-Informed Care: Implications for the Child Welfare Workforce

Emily A. Bosk, Abigail Williams-Butler, Debra Ruisard, Michael J. MacKenzie - Child Abuse & Neglect

The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between staff characteristics, endorsement of Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) and intent to turnover.

Vicarious traumatization among child welfare and child protection professionals: A systematic review

Beth E. Molnar, Samantha A. Meeker, Katherine Manners, Lisa Tieszen, Karen Kalergis, Janet E. Fine, Sean Hallinan, Jessica D. Wolfe, Muriel K. Wells - Child Abuse & Neglect

For this study, a review of research literature on the epidemiology of vicarious traumatization among child welfare professionals was conducted.