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World Vision

This child-led research initiative was conducted under the umbrella of World Vision’s DEAR project (Development Education and Awareness Raising) and the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030. The study explores explore SDG 16.2, the goal that focuses on the issue of ‘abuse, exploitation, trafficking, and all forms of violence against and torture of children’.

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Child Welfare Financing SFY 2016: A survey of federal, state, and local expenditures

Kristina Rosinsky and Sarah Catherine Williams - Child Trends

Child Trends conducted this 10th national survey of U.S. child welfare agency expenditures to promote an understanding of the challenges and opportunities agencies face in serving vulnerable children. This report is part of an array of resources compiled from the survey’s findings.

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An exploration of life outcomes for college graduates with foster care histories by race: Preliminary results from a campus-based program

Yvonne A. Unrau, Ann W. Dawson, Jonathan C. Anthony, Tamara M. Toutant, Ronicka D. Hamilton - Children and Youth Services Review

This paper explores how college graduates with foster care histories fare after graduating from a 4-year college that offered a campus-based program.

Enumeration of Children Living on the Streets in Uganda Across Four Locations: Iganga, Jijna, Mbale, and Kampala

Retrak - Hope for Justice

The goal of this research project is to inform policy and practice in Uganda by providing an estimate of the number of children on the streets in Kampala, Jinja, Iganga and Mbale; insight into the characteristics of these children; and exploration of children’s perspectives of their engagement on the streets.

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COVID-19: Call to action to protect vulnerable families and children in alternative care across Europe

Hope and Homes for Children and Lumos

This call to action, endorsed by several organizations, calls on European governments and European Union institutions to reinforce actions to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable children and families during the COVID-19 crisis. It outlines the main challenges for vulnerable children and families, and what the EU and European governments can do to address these challenges.

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Implementing International Child Safeguarding Standards in the context of the COVID-19 global pandemic

Keeping Children Safe

This briefing sets out how organisations can use the Keeping Children Safe International Child Safeguarding Standards to ensure they do all they can to protect children from harm caused by their staff, programmes, operations and partners in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Critical Condition - the impact of Covid-19 policies, policing and prisons on First Nations communities

Change the Record

This report from Change the Record aims to provide an Australian national overview of the Critical Condition of First Nations communities during Covid-19. The report includes evidence on the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on children in detention centers as well as children in out-of-home care and their families.

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Psychosocial deficits underpinning child headed households (CHHs) in Mabvuku and Tafara suburbs of Harare, Zimbabwe

A. Makuyana, S. P. Mbulayi, S. M. Kangethe - Children and Youth Services Review

This qualitative study used a case study design to explore the manifestations of the core psycho-social deficits associated with children domiciled in child headed households.

Paid Leave for All: COVID-19 demonstrates why we need paid medical and caregiving leave— and why it should be structured as a linked social insurance and public assistance program

Center for the Study of Social Policy

This brief from the Center for the Study of Social Policy in the U.S. calls for "a much more robust and permanent solution to ensure that everyone has access to paid leave who needs it, during this immediate crisis, and into the future."

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Ulinzi Wa Watoto Kipindi Cha Janga La COVID-19: Watoto na Malezi Mbadala

Better Care Network, The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, UNICEF and an Inter-agency Task Force

Kusudi la dokezo hili la kitalaamu ni kusaidia watendaji wa ulinzi wa watoto na maafisa wa serikali katika mwitikio wao wa kukabiliana mara moja na changamoto za ulinzi wa watoto zinazowakabili watoto ambao wako katika hatari ya kutenganishwa na familia zao au kuwekwa  mahali kwaajili ya uangalizi mbadala katika kipindi hiki cha  janga la COVID-19. 

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Anexo à Nota Técnica da Força-Tarefa Interagências sobre Proteção de Crianças e Adolescentes Durante a Pandemia de Covid-19: Crianças, Adolescentes e Cuidados Alternativos

Better Care Network, The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, and UNICEF and Inter-agency Task Force

Este documento complementar à Nota Técnica da Força-Tarefa Interagências sobre a Proteção de crianças e adolescentes durante a pandemia de COVID-19: Crianças, adolescentes e cuidados alternativos apresenta dicas úteis para promover o engajamento e a participação de todas as partes interessadas, algo crucial para a manutenção da continuidade dos serviços para crianças e adolescentes.

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Strengths-Based Practice in Troubled Times

Center for the Study of Social Policy's Strengthening Families: A Protective Factors Framework

This tool is meant to help practitioners stay grounded in family strengths as a way to overcome challenges and help families thrive even when the current COVID-19 crisis is weighing heavily on practitioners' and families' minds.

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A Systems Model of Repeat Court-Ordered Removals: Responding to Child Protection Challenges Using a Systems Approach

Sarah Wise - The British Journal of Social Work

In this study, a transdisciplinary group of key stakeholders in Australia jointly constructed a causal loop diagram to bring forth the systemic structure underlying the issue of repeat child removals (where parents lose successive infants and children to out-of-home care) and identify system conditions that need to be altered.

Mothers abused by intimate partners: Comparisons of those with children placed by child protective services and those without

Leslie M. Tutty & Kendra Nixon - Children and Youth Services Review

This exploratory secondary data analysis compares demographics, mental health/well-being, and protective mothering strategies of mothers who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV) whose children were taken into care compared to those whose children were not to identify key characteristics associated with children being removed by child protective service (CPS) in Western Canada.