This study examined the long-term effects of the Head Start early childhood program on foster children's developmental outcomes from ages 3–4 to 8–9.

This chapter describes a youth-centered approach to transition planning for this vulnerable population and highlights essential elements to consider during the process such as disability, mental health, trauma, resilience, self-determination, culture, and how trauma impacts mental health.

Drawing on a large‐scale online survey of looked after children's subjective well‐being, this paper demonstrates that a significant number of children and young people (age 4–18 years) did not fully understand the reasons for their entry to care.

This annual publication presents information on those who left care during the previous financial year, as well as the circumstances of those who have left care at the time of their nineteenth birthday.

More than 12,000 children in care are not living with at least one of their siblings, according to this article from BBC News.

This episode of the Child Welfare Information Gateway podcast is part of a series focusing on Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) grantees.

In this joint policy note, Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict and Human Rights Watch highlight the increasingly worrying trend of military detention of children affected by armed conflict, a trend documented in at least 15 countries affected by armed conflict.

This mid-level online course is designed to help participants' develop knowledge of good practice in child protection, with a particular focus on conflict settings.

This report reviews information on looked-after children in the UK at both national and local authority levels for the financial year 2018 to 2019.

This training is designed to increase participants' knowledge of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS).

This study examined child protective service (CPS) involvement of children surviving the child maltreatment fatality (CMF) of a sibling as well as predictors of subsequent CPS reports.

The present study uses system dynamics modeling to inform decision-making by testing policies for scaling the Family Unification Program (FUP), a U.S. federal initiative connecting inadequately housed families involved in child welfare with long-term rental subsidies to avoid foster placement.

This study synthetic cohort life tables and data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System to generate the first cumulative prevalence estimates of termination of parental rights.

To investigate the impact of childhood deprivation on the adult brain and the extent to which structural changes underpin these effects, the authors of this study from PNAS utilized MRI data collected from young adults who were exposed to severe deprivation in early childhood in the Romanian orphanages of the Ceaușescu era and then, subsequently adopted by UK families.

The objective of this work is to determine the factors associated with deciding to address family reunification from residential care (RC).

The objective of this study was to provide data on the effects of bullying suffered at school on different cognitive and affective SWB measures (OLS, PWI and OHS) of early and late adolescents in residential care.

This article uses Official Information Act and publicly available data to examine recent trends of children in contact with the Aotearoa New Zealand child protection system. It discusses these trends with reference to child protection policy reforms, and an inequalities perspective.

The objective of this work is to determine the factors associated with deciding to address family reunification from residential care.

This paper reports on a longitudinal study of young people transitioning out of care and journeying towards young adulthood over a period of five years.

This population‐based register‐linkage study assessed the likelihood of OHC placement in different gestational age groups using multivariable Cox regression models.

The current randomized control study aimed to determine, if a life skills-based intervention could improve the emotional health and self-esteem among Malaysian adolescents in orphanages.

The aim of this paper is to examine the effects of Treatment Foster Care on youth with serious behavior problems.

In this article, the authors examine the experiences of transitions to work and the associated challenges for the agency of young people leaving residential care institutions in Luxembourg.

The paper aims to build a frame around the main principles of family reunification through the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights.