This study aimed to understand the impact of integrating a fee waiver for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) with Ghana’s Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) 1000 cash transfer programme - a program for extremely poor households with orphans and vulnerable children, elderly with no productive capacity and persons with severe disability - on health insurance enrolment.

The current study employed a cluster analysis to identify unique patterns of functioning among adolescent mothers leaving foster care aged 19.

This study explored the lived experiences of 23 kin caregivers raising children left behind in rural Northeast China while their migrant parents worked and lived in cities.

This article reports on the analysis of 11 qualitative interviews with parents who had attended child protection case conferences (CPCCs) in Scotland.

This exploratory data analysis of 937 children in 522 families in one London local authority sought to identify trends in the length, outcome and nature of pre-proceedings and proceedings cases, including outcomes six, twelve and twenty-four months after the end of these processes.

This literature review sought to explore the perspectives of practitioners and foster care providers on the topic of young people in and exiting out-of-home care (OoHC) who become parents at an early age.

This paper presents a juvenile delinquency prevention program for unaccompanied foreign minors in street situations in Ceuta, Spain. The main objective is to assess the implementation and results of this program.

This article summarises the policy and research literature on the mental health needs and experiences of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) in the UK, with the aim of suggesting how to enhance practice and improve outcomes for this vulnerable group.

The purpose of this study was to systematically review existing health service interventions for left-behind children in China.

This paper examines the data of empirical research on child-parent relationship in the Russian adoptive and birth families.

This research aims to shed light on the perceived intended and unintended consequences of the deinstitutionalization process in Cambodia.

This paper presents the results of the first pilot implementation in Spain of SafeCare, a home visiting evidence-based programme for the prevention and treatment of child neglect in families with children aged 0-5 years old.

This is a study on perceptions of child abuse and interventions in cases of abuse in the Family and Childhood Support Centres in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The aim of this report was to examine the recruitment, retention, training, assessment and support of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people caring for children removed from their parents.

Adapting placement services to the needs of kinship care providers is the focus of this article.

This paper presents an evaluation of the pilot foster care project (FCPP) in Albania.

This paper discusses recent policy reforms have substantially changed state responses to child abuse in Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ).

This study provides a mapping of parenting support service provision in Ireland.

This report, produced by the Center for Educational Research and Consulting (CERC) and Save the Children, summarises the broader research study ‘Development Perspectives of Foster Care in Armenia’, which examined the foster care pilot programme introduced in Armenia in 2005.

From a social work perspective, this literature review aims at guiding the development of foster care in Vietnam by discussing current research about foster care from different countries.

This paper presents the conceptual framework for the Childonomics research project, which has developed the first iteration of a methodology that helps people to reflect on the long-term social and economic return of investing in children and families within a given national or sub-national context.

This study aims at comparing the nature and processes of contact between children in foster care and their birth families; the relationship between the existence and quality of contact and foster carers’ burden; and the relationship between the existence or not of contact and the existence of reunification plans.

In this study, focus groups comprised of child welfare workers and foster parents were conducted to capture the issues relevant to addressing the sexual reproductive health needs of youth in out-of-home care.

The purpose of this study was to explore early adulthood education and employment trajectories among young adults who experienced out-of-home care during childhood and to examine how various care history factors predict these trajectories.

This qualitative research asked case managers in the Western Australia's child protection system what contributed to timely reunification of children with their families, a recent policy goal.