Inter‐country adoption in Australia: Examining the factors that drive the practice and implications for policy reform

Fiona Hilferty & Ilan Katz - Australian Journal of Social Issues

The article presents the findings of an international literature review conducted to examine the factors that drive inter‐country adoption rates within both sending and receiving countries.

The role of out-of-home caregivers in the achievement of child welfare permanency

Colleen C. Katz, Marina Lalayants, Jon D. Phillips - Children and Youth Services Review

This longitudinal study is the first to evaluate the ways in which out-of-home (OOH) caregivers influence permanency outcomes for children in the foster care system while controlling for child-level and parent-level characteristics.

Seeking Refuge: An Exploration of Unaccompanied Women, Minors from Somalia and Families from Pakistan Experiences of Services in Bangkok, Thailand

Aster S. Tecle, Kara Byrne, Kimberly Schmit, Mary Beth Vogel-Ferguson, Naima Mohamed, Abdulkhaliq Mohamed, Rosemarie Hunter - Advances in Social Work

This study aimed to explore refugees’ experiences in Bangkok, assess agencies’ service delivery models, and strengthen their capabilities to address service gaps.

Care Leavers’ and Their Care Workers’ Views of Preparation and Aftercare Services in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Sue Bond - Emerging Adulthood

In this qualitative study with four Child and Youth Care Centers in a town in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, focus groups were held with young people in care and their care workers to discuss preparation for leaving care and aftercare services and the evaluation of these by each group of participants.

Study on alternative care community practices for children in Cambodia (Khmer Language)

Carolyn Hamilton, Kara Apland, Maurice Dunaiski and Elizabeth Yarrow - Coram Children’s Legal Centre

The ‘Study on Alternative Care Community Practices for Children in Cambodia, including Pagoda-based care’ (published in Khmer) is the first of its kind which sheds light on how different forms of alternative care are being used in the community.

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“I haven't read it, I've lived it!” The benefits and challenges of peer research with young people leaving care

Berni Kelly, Seana Friel, Theresa McShane, John Pinkerton, Eithne Gilligan - Qualitative Social Work

This article aims to provide a detailed account and reflection of the involvement of care leavers as peer researchers in the qualitative case study phase of a three-year, mixed method study of the transitions of young people leaving care in Northern Ireland.

Temporary placements: A crisis-management strategy for physically abused children?

Sophie T. Hébert, Sonia Hélie, Tonino Esposito - Child Abuse & Neglect

The objective of the present study is to describe the context in which temporary placements are used by children’s services in Quebec (Canada) while analyzing the associative link between temporary placements and physical abuse as the reason for the placement.

Child welfare inequalities in the four nations of the UK

Paul Bywaters, Jonathan Scourfield, Chantel Jones, Tim Sparks, Martin Elliott, Jade Hooper, Claire McCartan, Marina Shapira, Lisa Bunting, Brigid Daniel - Journal of Social Work

This study reports on a large quantitative, descriptive study focusing on children in contact with children’s services on a single date in 2015 in the four UK countries (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) to provide a potential ‘natural experiment’ for comparing intervention patterns.

Infanticide and Abuse: Killing and confinement of children with disabilities in Kenya

Disability Rights International

This report is the product of a two-year investigation by Disability Rights International (DRI) into institutions and orphanages across Kenya. The report describes the "egregious human rights violations" perpetrated against children with disabilities in Kenya, particularly those who are confined to institutions and "orphanages." 

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Short-term family foster care in Flanders: An exploratory study into the factors associated with family reunification decisions

Frank Van Holen, Laurence Belenger, Elke Carlier, Babette Potoms, Johan Vanderfaeillie - Children and Youth Services Review

The present study is the first to examine reunification rates and characteristics associated with reunification decisions in Flemish short-term foster care.

Coming to terms with oneself: a mixed methods approach to perceived self-esteem of adult survivors of childhood maltreatment in foster care settings

Dina Weindl and Brigitte Lueger-Schuster - BMC Psychology

This study sought to investigate the emotional facet of self–esteem (SE) in 46 adult survivors of institutional childhood maltreatment (IM) in foster care settings provided by the City of Vienna.

Tusla’s Programme for Prevention, Partnership and Family Support: Children’s Participation Work Package Final Report

Ms Edel Tierney, Dr Danielle Kennan, Dr Cormac Forkan, Dr Bernadine Brady, and Ms Rebecca Jackson - UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland Galway

This evaluation study focuses on the implementation of and the outcomes from the Programme for Prevention, Partnership and Family Support (PPFS) programme, a programme of action being undertaken by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency of Ireland.

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Using Administrative Data to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Home Visiting Programs for Improving the Well-Being of First Nations Children and Parents

Mariette Chartier, Marni Brownell, Nathan Nickel, Rhonda Campbell, Wanda Phillips-Beck, Jennifer Enns, Joykrishna Sarkar, Elaine Burland, Dan Chateau - IJPDS International Journal of Population Data Science

The objective of this study was to determine Families First Home Visiting Program (FFHV)’s effectiveness at improving outcomes for First Nations children and parents.