"In this time of profound uncertainty, child welfare systems face unprecedented challenges to ensuring safety, well-being, and permanency for young people," says this joint statement.

This comment from the Lancet explores the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on children in temporary accommodation in the UK.

This paper offers some insight into the benefits, impacts and challenges of the ‘creative mentor’ role. It links to a social pedagogy framework, supporting practice, and draws on creative mentors’ work with children and young people living in care. It aims to inform professionals and teams around a child about the transforming nature of working with creativity – beyond the obvious external experiences.

This leaflet outlines six important principles for foster carers and adopters to hold in mind as they work together to help children to move to adoption.

The objective of this study is to identify situations and behaviors occurring during contact visits that are likely to have an impact on a foster child's well‐being.

This study explored how child maltreatment, alongside a range of other variables, predicted adverse outcomes for children adopted from the foster care system in England.

This study examined foster parent physical and mental health over time.

The aim of this paper is to describe and analyse the notion of age and maturity in child protection proceedings in order to elucidate how these aspects could influence children's rights to participate.

This article reports on a qualitative study involving 31 social workers and provides an analysis of their experiences and dilemmas in working with families marked by high levels of conflict between separated parents.

The authors of this study compared individual patterns of change in three parenting outcomes in 256 at risk parents with young children attending the group‐based Growing Up Happily in the Family program delivered in municipal social services.

This resource from Save the Children US features tools and tips for parents, caregivers, teachers and all those who care about children in crisis.

This book was a project developed by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings (IASC MHPSS RG). This is a story developed for and by children around the world on how to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.

This guidance is for Chief Officers, professional leaders in children’s services and child protection committees, who should ensure it is taken account of within local partnerships.

This guidance from Health Protection Scotland is to support those working in social or community care and residential settings (residential children’s homes, including secure children’s homes) to give advice to their staff and users of their services about COVID-19.

This advice from Public Health England is to help adults with caring responsibilities look after the mental health and wellbeing of children or young people, including those with additional needs and disabilities, during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

CELCIS has gathered together important guidance, information and resources to help children and families in Scotland and the UK during the COVID-19 crisis.

This resource from the U.S. National Child Traumatic Stress Network will help you think about how an infectious disease outbreak might affect your family—both physically and emotionally—and what you can do to help your family cope.

This guidance from the UK Department for Education and the Department for Public Health England answers some key questions regarding meeting the needs of vulnerable children during the COVID-19 crisis, including children in care and children with a child protection plan.

This webinar reviews how to transition to remote gender-based violence (GBV) assessments and services in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This webinar reviewed the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on women and girls and how to mitigate the risks of gender-based violence (GBV).

This country care review includes the Concluding Observations of 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. 

As part of a larger project on decision‐making at intake, this systematic review addressed the question of the factors associated with worker decisions to investigate alleged maltreatment referrals.

The current study seeks to explore clinicians' and parents' perspectives regarding the role of psychotherapy services (e.g. individual or conjoint counselling/therapy) for child welfare cases.

This study examines how the interpretation of vulnerability by the national shelter system for male UAMs in Greece shapes their trajectories into adulthood.