One‐year outcomes of youth exiting a residential care facility in South Africa
This article describes the 1‐year outcomes of youth transitioning out of a residential care facility in South Africa.
This article describes the 1‐year outcomes of youth transitioning out of a residential care facility in South Africa.
This article examines the care experiences of former looked‐after children from a residential care setting in South Africa.
The focus of this paper is the challenge of implementing trauma‐informed practice in the child protection service provided by the Intensive Intervention work stream.
The aim of the study was to examine how carers communicate with looked‐after young people about alcohol, tobacco, and drug use.
In this study, the life stories of four foster mothers of victims of maternal sexual abuse were collected.
This article introduces a youth-reported measure (Essential Youth Experiences [EYE]) developed to assess the experiences of foster youth in their home environment and their critical relationships across a number of service systems.
This resource from the Capacity Building Center for States in the U.S. provides guidance on adapting child welfare services to better meet the needs of youth (ages 15 to 24) in care.
The aim of this study is to examine whether youth in foster care receive services according to need, by using a multi-informant design.
This book draws on archival, oral history and public policy sources to tell a history of foster care in Australia from the nineteenth century to the present day.
This Research Handbook is an innovative tool which will be of use not only for students and scholars interested in migration displacement, immigration, and human rights, but also for policymakers and others actively engaged in the migrant and refugee rights advocacy community.
In this editorial in the South African Journal of Psychology, Ann Skelton (a member of the Law Faculty at the University of Pretoria) writes about the recent family separation policy enacted at the US border with Mexico in which children of all ages arriving to the country with their parents or other family members were separated and placed into detention facilities.
The objective of this study is to examine suicide attempts and completions among mothers who had a child taken into care by child protection services (CPS).
This paper sets out the government’s response to two reports into foster care: The Education Select Committee Inquiry into Fostering and the Foster Care in England report, an independent review commissioned by the Department for Education. The response describes the government’s vision for foster care and improvements for the system, based on the recommendations of the two reports.
This research investigated the prevalence of looked-after and adopted young people within a case file review of 185 young people referred to a UK gender identity development service over a 2-year period (1 April 2009 to 1 April 2011).
This chapter provides an overview of the German child protection system.
This chapter presents an analysis of the child protection system in England today.
This chapter identifies and examines the field of power inherent in the child protection system which works to constrain and enable children’s participation in child protection interventions.
This chapter aims at providing an overview on legislation, organizational structure and processes of child protection in Switzerland.
This chapter draws on the policy analysis developed for the research project Hestia, which compares policies and responses to child abuse and neglect in England, Germany and the Netherlands.
This chapter describes the child protection system in Australia.
This chapter, from the book 'Participation in Child Protection,' identifies and critically analyses the dominant discourses that form the ideological conditions of children’s participation in child protection interventions.
This chapter provides an overview of the Irish child protection and welfare system, and examines continuities and discontinuities between the past and the present.
The paper presents an original typology of children’s participation in child protection interventions.